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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