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Mexican Cession

The area from California and New Mexico given by Mexico to the

United States in 1848

Mexican Revolution

armed rebellion in which the Mexican people fought for political reform

Nationalize

government taking ownership of a company or industry

The conquest of Spain

Napoleon Bonaparte laid the groundwork for the revolt that led to Mexico’s independence from Spain

overthrow dictatorsh

In the late 1900s, conflict broke out in Central American countries such as Guatemala and Nicaragua as people fought to

giving more land to farmers and more rights to workers

Mexico’s new constitution in 1917 aimed to change Mexican life by

won their independence from Spain

What best describes most of today’s Central American countries in the 1820s is that they

widespread poverty.

The immediate cause of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 was

Dictatorship

government controlled by a single leader

Embargo

a complete ban on trade with a country

the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa

Enslaved Africans were shipped to the Caribbean in the triangular system of trade that connected

foreign investors to build their economies.

After countries in Central America and the Caribbean declared their independence, foreign powers continued to be involved in the region because many countries depended on

form of government common in the region in the 1900s

Cuba, under the rule of Fulgencio Batista, was an example of a dictatorship, which was a

leading the first successful independence movement in the Caribbean

Toussaint L'Ouverture is remembered for

communist dictatorship

A revolution in 1959 led to Cuba becoming a

Diaspora

a movement of people from their homeland to other places

Cultural diffusion

the spread of cultural traits from one culture to another

Mural

a large-scale painting painted on a wall

home to most of Mexico’s major cities

The feature that makes the Mexican Plateau significant is that it is

poverty

The most common cause of the Mexican and Central American diaspora is

Spanish and Mexican Indian

The two cultural backgrounds of a majority of Mexicans are

cultural diversity

In Mexico,

“Race Day” is a celebration of Mexico’s

rural to urban areas

Mexico’s population has changed in recent decades because the bulk of the population has shifted from

Remittance

money that people living in another country send back to their families in their home country.

Ecotourism

tourism that focuses on the environment and seeks to minimize

environmental impact

Specialization

the act of concentrating on a limited number of goods or activities

Interdependence

the state of people of countries being dependent on one another

lack of a standing army

A characteristic of Costa Rica that has contributed to its having the most stable

government in Central America is the

slow down

If remittances from the United States slowed down, the Mexican economy would

greater economic growth

The result of the shift toward a more free-market economy in Mexico would be

tourism

A key goal of ecotourism is to minimize the environmental impact of

law to vote in elections

Mexico’s constitution is different from the constitution of the United States because

eligible voters are required by

Hurricane

tropical cyclone that forms over the tropical Atlantic Ocean

Creole

a language that mixes two or more parent languages

Santería

a Cuban religion that combines Catholic and West African beliefs

leads to water shortages

One negative effect that tourism has had in the Caribbean is that it

blending of Spanish and West African cultures in the Caribbean.

The religions of Santería and Vodou are examples of the

communist dictatorship

Cuba’s government is different from that of the Dominican Republic because Cuba is a

parliamentary democracies

Most governments in the Caribbean today are

Haitian Creole

The language that combines French and African influences is

Mudslide

an event marked by mud and earth sliding down hillsides onto lower areas.

Erosion

a process by which water, ice, or wind removes rock and soil

Infrastructure

body of public works such as roads, bridges, and hospitals that a country needs to support a modern economy

Cartel

a group of businesses that control an industry

Digital divide

wide gap in access to the internet.

soil erosion

One effect of deforestation

Upper class

In Mexico and most of Central America, most wealth is concentrated within the

escape poverty

A reason so many people have migrated from Middle America to other

Regions are to

deadly mudslides

Earthquakes and erosion can combine to cause

insufficient transportation system

An example of an infrastructure problem in Mexico City is the