Social Studies Mexico and Central America

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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 by Napoleon Bonaparte laid the groundwork for

the revolt that led to Mexico’s independence from Spain

In the late 1900s, conflict broke out in

Central American countries such as Guatemala and Nicaragua as people fought to overthrow dictatorships

Mexico’s new constitution in 1917 aimed to changed

Mexican life by giving more land to

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

they won their independence from Spain

The immediate cause of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 was

widespread poverty

Dictatorship

a government controlled by a single leader

Embargo

a complete ban on trade with a country

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

Caribbean, Europe, and Africa

After countries in Central America and the Caribbean declared their independence,

foreign powers continued to be involved in a region  because many countries depended on foreign investors to build their economies