Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7
Chapter 38: Bananas
Go to Questions
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Answer Key
1. Lorenzo Dow Baker brought the banana to Boston from Jamaica in 1870.
2. Andrew Preston, Lorenzo Dow Baker, and group of investors were the owners of the Boston Fruit Company.
3. Andrew Preston is credited in introducing the system of refrigerated transport in steamships and railway boxcars, together with cold-storage warehouse.
4. The Tropical Trading and Transport Company was the Boston Fruit Company's main competition.
5. Minor C. Keith owned The Tropical Trading and Transport Company.
6. Minor C. Keith was working building a railroad in Costa Rica.
7. Minor C. Keith started banana plantations in Costa Rica.
8. In 1899, Keith's bananas would come from Costa Rica through New Orleans.
9. Bradley Palmer, a lawyer working for Henry Preston, merged the Boston Fruit Company and The Tropical Trading and Transport.
10. United Fruit Company was the name of the new company after the merger.
11. The new company operated in Honduras, Guatemala, and Colombia.
12. The United Fruit Company had 80% of the banana market.
13. "Banana Republics" were countries that the United Fruit Company controlled.
14. Guatemala's left-wing government of President Jacobo Arbenz was overthrown by the CIA helping the United Fruit Company.
15. The United Fruit Company owned 40% of Guatemala's land before the coup d'etat against President Jacobo Arbenz.
16. The Panama disease was a fungal infection.
17. President Arbenz's land reform program "aimed at seizing uncultivated land on large estates and giving it to the landless poor. The owners of the land were to be paid compensation calculated on valuations taken from their tax returns and, since United Fruit hardly paid any tax, the amount they were due to receive for their seized holdings was much less than its true worth.
18. The Civil War in Guatemala began in 1944.
19. The Civil War in Guatemala ended in 1996.
20. Chiquita is the brand name that the United Fruit Company sells its bananas.
21. Rice, wheat, corn, and bananas are the top 4 most valuable cultivated crops in the world.
22. Gros Michel is the banana plant most affected by the Panama disease.
23. Cavendish was affected by the Black Sigatoka.
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7
Chapter 38: Bananas
Go to Questions
Go to Directory of Fifty Foods That Changed the Course of History
Go to Directory of Articles & Books
Answer Key
1. Lorenzo Dow Baker brought the banana to Boston from Jamaica in 1870.
2. Andrew Preston, Lorenzo Dow Baker, and group of investors were the owners of the Boston Fruit Company.
3. Andrew Preston is credited in introducing the system of refrigerated transport in steamships and railway boxcars, together with cold-storage warehouse.
4. The Tropical Trading and Transport Company was the Boston Fruit Company's main competition.
5. Minor C. Keith owned The Tropical Trading and Transport Company.
6. Minor C. Keith was working building a railroad in Costa Rica.
7. Minor C. Keith started banana plantations in Costa Rica.
8. In 1899, Keith's bananas would come from Costa Rica through New Orleans.
9. Bradley Palmer, a lawyer working for Henry Preston, merged the Boston Fruit Company and The Tropical Trading and Transport.
10. United Fruit Company was the name of the new company after the merger.
11. The new company operated in Honduras, Guatemala, and Colombia.
12. The United Fruit Company had 80% of the banana market.
13. "Banana Republics" were countries that the United Fruit Company controlled.
14. Guatemala's left-wing government of President Jacobo Arbenz was overthrown by the CIA helping the United Fruit Company.
15. The United Fruit Company owned 40% of Guatemala's land before the coup d'etat against President Jacobo Arbenz.
16. The Panama disease was a fungal infection.
17. President Arbenz's land reform program "aimed at seizing uncultivated land on large estates and giving it to the landless poor. The owners of the land were to be paid compensation calculated on valuations taken from their tax returns and, since United Fruit hardly paid any tax, the amount they were due to receive for their seized holdings was much less than its true worth.
18. The Civil War in Guatemala began in 1944.
19. The Civil War in Guatemala ended in 1996.
20. Chiquita is the brand name that the United Fruit Company sells its bananas.
21. Rice, wheat, corn, and bananas are the top 4 most valuable cultivated crops in the world.
22. Gros Michel is the banana plant most affected by the Panama disease.
23. Cavendish was affected by the Black Sigatoka.
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