Conquest
What country shares borders with Honduras and Costa Rica?
What is Nicaragua?
What do you call a person of European and indigenous origin?
What is a mestizo?
What is a caudillo?
What is a charismatic, authoritarian political and/or military leader (military strongmen)?
What articles were included in the Mexican Constitution of 1917? Name three.
What is agrarian (land) reform, the separation of Church and State, pro-workers and pro-women's rights, such as setting a minimum wage?
What does the word "coyote" mean?
What is a human smuggler or a human trafficker hired to cross people over the border?
What was the purpose of the Guerra Florida?
What is to have a continuous supply of human sacrifice to the god of the sun so that it will continue to rise.
What would you call a person born in Latin America of Spanish parents?
What country was the biggest investor in Argentina until the mid-twentieth century?
What is England?
Why did the US instigate war with Mexico in 1846?
There was a disputed land issue in what is now Texas, and they wanted to acquire the land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to build a railroad and have access to the Pacific.
What does NAFTA stand for and what is it?
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico? The idea is that all products transported across the borders remain duty-free, meant to incentivize trade between the three countries for all to profit.
What were some of the most advanced scientific achievements of the Mayans? Name three.
What is the establishment of the precise calendar of 365 days, the invention of the mathematical concept of zero, creation of most advanced observatories?
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is famous for?
What is her essays, plays, poetry and novels in the 17th century Mexico? She was a nun.
Domingo Peron created an unusual alliance between...
What are the military and the unions?
What was the name of the treaty signed after the Mexican-American War in 1848?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Where are the majority of Maquila factories (maquiladoras) located?
What is along the 2,000-mile border between the US and Mexico, many in Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez?
What are the five major indigenous languages spoken in Latin America?
What is nahuatl, maya, aymara, guarani and quechua?
Which two cities were the first Viceregal capitals during the colonial period?
What is Mexico City and Lima?
The Dirty War was a period of...?
What is the political repression of its citizens by the military junta in the name of fighting subversive leftists/communists? (30,000 disappeared)
What were the results of the Mexican-American War?
What is Mexico lost almost half of its territory. 100,000 Mexicans living on this conquered land became US citizens overnight by conquest?
What is a "callampa" and how does it relate to migration?
What is a shantytown? It's a product of rural to urban migration that began in the mid-twentieth century and continues today.