Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7
Chapter 38: Bananas
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Questions
1. Who brought the banana to Boston from Jamaica in 1870?
2. Who were the owners of the Boston Fruit Company?
3. Who is credited in introducing the system of refrigerated transport in steamships and railway boxcars, together with cold-storage warehouse?
4. Who was the Boston Fruit Company's main competition?
5. Which business did Minor C. Keith own?
6. Where was Minor C. Keith working building a railroad?
7. Where did Minor C. Keith start banana plantations?
8. In 1899, Keith's bananas would come from ____________________ through ____________________.
9. Who merged the Boston Fruit Company and The Tropical Trading and Transport Company?
10. What was the name of the new company after the merger?
11. Which countries did this new company operate?
12. How much of the banana market did the United Fruit Company have?
13. What were "banana republics"?
14. Which country did the CIA intervene to help the United Fruit Company overthrow a democratically elected left-wing government?
15. How much land did the United Fruit Company owned in Guatemala before the coup d'etat against President Jacobo Arbenz?
16. What was the Panama disease?
17. What was President Arbenz land reform program?
18. When did the civil war begin in Guatemala?
19. When did the civil war end?
20. What is the brand name that the United Fruit Company sell its bananas?
21. Which are the top 4 most valuable cultivated crops?
22. Which banana plant was affected by the Panama disease?
23. Which banana plant was affected by the Black Sigatoka?
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7
Chapter 38: Bananas
Go to Answer Key
Go to Directory of Fifty Foods That Changed the Course of History
Go to Directory of Articles & Books
Questions
1. Who brought the banana to Boston from Jamaica in 1870?
2. Who were the owners of the Boston Fruit Company?
3. Who is credited in introducing the system of refrigerated transport in steamships and railway boxcars, together with cold-storage warehouse?
4. Who was the Boston Fruit Company's main competition?
5. Which business did Minor C. Keith own?
6. Where was Minor C. Keith working building a railroad?
7. Where did Minor C. Keith start banana plantations?
8. In 1899, Keith's bananas would come from ____________________ through ____________________.
9. Who merged the Boston Fruit Company and The Tropical Trading and Transport Company?
10. What was the name of the new company after the merger?
11. Which countries did this new company operate?
12. How much of the banana market did the United Fruit Company have?
13. What were "banana republics"?
14. Which country did the CIA intervene to help the United Fruit Company overthrow a democratically elected left-wing government?
15. How much land did the United Fruit Company owned in Guatemala before the coup d'etat against President Jacobo Arbenz?
16. What was the Panama disease?
17. What was President Arbenz land reform program?
18. When did the civil war begin in Guatemala?
19. When did the civil war end?
20. What is the brand name that the United Fruit Company sell its bananas?
21. Which are the top 4 most valuable cultivated crops?
22. Which banana plant was affected by the Panama disease?
23. Which banana plant was affected by the Black Sigatoka?
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