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Mexico
Caribbean
Central America
100
The side facing the wind.
What is windward?
100
The side facing away from the wind.
What is leeward?
100
What kind of landforms can you find throughout Mexico?
mountains
100
The name of the territory controlled by the U.S. is what?
Virgin Islands
100
What 1 job do most poor Central Americans have?
farmers with little land and laborers on plantations and factories
200
The artificial watering of farmland by storing and distributing water drawn from reserviors or rivers.
What is irrigation?
200
People that travel from place to place where extra workers are needed to cultivate or harvest crops.
What is migrant worker?
200
Where do most Mexicans live?
urban areas
200
What are 2 of the 4 ethnic groups in the Caribbean?
Africans, Europeans, Native Americans, and Asians
200
What privleges did wealthy Central Americans get over poor people concerning politics?
more attention and more land
300
A policy where estates were divided among landless peasants.
What is land redistribution?
300
Large, Spanish-owned estates of land.
What is haciendas?
300
What are the 3 cultures that make up modern Mexico?
Ancient Indian, Colonial Spanish, Modern Mexican
300
What are 3 of the 5 countries that make up the 4 main islands of the Greater Antilles?
Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico
300
What is 1 of the 3 main cultural groups in Central America?
Indians, Europeans and Mestizos, African Descant
400
Armed forces outside the regular army, who often fight in small bands.
What is guerrilla?
400
Military directors.
What is caudillos?
400
What can be found beneath the waters of the Gulf?
petroleum and natural gas
400
What physical forces shaped the islands of the Caribbean?
volcanic mountains and coral reefs
400
What are the 3 cash crops in Central America?
coffe, bananas, and cotton
500
Farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community.
What is ejidos?
500
Huge commercial farms owned by individuals or by farming companies.
What is latifundios?
500
What are 2 social classes in New Spain?
Peninsulares, Criollos, Mestizos, Indian
500
Why did Caribbean islanders migrate away?
lack of jobs and change in politics
500
What are the 3 major landforms in Central America?
mountanous core, Caribbean lowlands, and Pacific Coastal plain