Haiti/Dominican Report!!! Due Friday!!!?

Question

I have a report due on friday on Haiti and the Dominican Republic and I have to answer these questions but I dont understand either:

-explain the changing boundary lines and their relationshio to topography and politics.

-explain how the people have used their natural resources and developed infastructure for trade.

I dont understand what the questions are asking, please someone help me or answer it fo me. This is due this Friday (in 2 days!!) Thank you so much!!!

Answer 1

Although Dominican relations with its closest neighbor, the Republic of Haiti, have never been extensive, there are signs this would have changed with the government of President Mejia. Growing immigration from and political instability in Haiti have forced the Dominican Republic to take a closer look at relations with its neighbor both country-to-country and in international fora. There is a sizeable Haitian migrant community in the Dominican Republic.


The French held on in the eastern part of the island, until defeated by the Spanish inhabitants at the Battle of Palo Hincado on November 7, 1808 and the final capitulation of the besieged Santo Domingo on July 9, 1809, with help from the Royal Navy. The Spanish authorities showed little interest in their restored colony, and the following period is recalled as La España Boba – 'The Era of Foolish Spain'. The great ranching families such as the Santanas came to be the leaders in the south east, the law of the "machete" ruled for a time. Spanish lieutenant governor José Núñez de Cáceres declared the colony's independence as the state of Spanish Haiti (Haiti Español) on November 30, 1821, requesting admission to the Republic of Gran Colombia, but Haitian forces, led by Jean-Pierre Boyer, occupied the whole island just nine weeks later.


[ Haitian occupation
The twenty-two-year Haitian occupation that followed is recalled by Dominicans as a period of brutal military rule, though the reality is more complex. It led to large-scale land expropriations and failed efforts to force production of export crops, impose military services, restrict the use of the Spanish language, and eliminate traditional customs such as cockfighting. It reinforced Dominican's perceptions of themselves as different from Haitians in "language, race, religion and domestic customs."Yet, this was also a period that definitively ended slavery as an institution in the eastern part of the island.

Haiti's constitution forbid whites from owning land, and the major landowning families were forcibly deprived of their properties. Most emigrated to Cuba, Puerto Rico or Gran Colombia, usually with the encouragement of Haitian officials, who acquired their lands. The Haitians, who associated the Roman Catholic Church with the French slave-masters who had exploited them before independence, confiscated all church property, deported all foreign clergy, and severed the ties of the remaining clergy to the Vatican. Santo Domingo’s university, the oldest in the Western Hemisphere, lacking both students and teachers, closed down. In order to receive diplomatic recognition from France, Haiti was forced to pay an indemnity of 90 million francs to the former French colonists, and Haiti imposed heavy taxes on the eastern part of the island. Since Haiti was unable to adequately provision its army, the occupying forces largely survived by commandeering or confiscating food and supplies at gunpoint. Attempts to redistribute land conflicted with the system of communal land tenure (terrenos comuneros), which had arisen with the ranching economy, and newly emancipated slaves resented being forced to grow cash crops under Boyer's Code Rural. In rural areas, the Haitian administration was usually too inefficient to enforce its own laws. It was in the city of Santo Domingo that the effects of the occupation were most accutely felt, and it was there that the movement for independence originated.


IN 1937 Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, the president killed over 30000 Haitians at the border.

Since then relations between the two countries have not beedn excellent

Answer 2

Haiti/Dominican Republic was also called Hispanola by the spanish Christopher Columbus who settled in the islands first and was then ousted by the French, there was a lot of fighting for the island between the French and the Spanish which eventually caused the split the Spanish took back what is now know as the Dominican Republic and the French kept Hispanola now know as Haiti. There were still fights between the Haitians and the Spanish.

"Spain ceded the colony to France in 1795, and Haitian blacks under Toussaint L'Ouverture conquered it in 1801. In 1808 the people revolted and captured Santo Domingo the next year, setting up the first republic. Spain regained title to the colony in 1814. In 1821 Spanish rule was overthrown, but in 1822 the colony was reconquered by the Haitians. In 1844 the Haitians were thrown out, and the Dominican Republic was established, headed by Pedro Santana. Uprisings and Haitian attacks led Santana to make the country a province of Spain from 1861 to 1865. " infoplease quote

Haitians star :

Wyclef Jean . singer

Mikaël Jean : GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA

Pierre Jean-jacques . Soccer player (nantes) France

I heard Usher is Haitian .

Answer 3

Haiti has a lot of political problems.

Since 2004, about 8,000 peacekeepers from the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) maintain civil order in Haiti; despite efforts to control illegal migration, Haitians fleeing economic privation and civil unrest continue to cross into the Dominican Republic and sail to neighboring countries; Haiti claims US-administered Navassa Island


Agriculture - products:

coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn, sorghum; wood
Industries:

sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement, light assembly industries based on imported parts

Answer 4

For the first question they are asking about when the border has changed, and why it changed.

For the second question talk about highways, major roads, airports, and train lines connecting the two countries, and what products the two countries exchange.