Time for Revolution
During the revolution, this army was made up of cowboys, miners, railroad workers and farmers. They controlled northern Mexico.
Villistas
This 1994 treaty between the U.S., Mexico and Canada lowered barriers to trade.
North American Free Trade Agreement
The pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, and their descendants
Indigenous
During Cardenas's presidency, new factories were created to manufacture goods that Mexico had typically imported. This policy was called:
Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI)
A tax on an imported good.
Tariff
The conflict that resulted from Miguel Hidalgo saying that land had been stolen from the indigenous communities by the peninsulares.
Mexican War of Independence
President Calderon's military response to the Drug Cartels
War on Drugs
Some of the major achievements of the Aztec Empire? (Name one)
Causeways, aquaducts, used chinampas (floating islands) for farming.
A policy that protects around 800,000 young people, known as “DREAMers”, who entered the United States unlawfully as children, from deportation
DACA
The legal authorization which allows a person to work in a country where one does not hold citizenship?
Work Permit
This man was the leader of the Constitutionalists during the Revolution.
Carranza
What is it to hand over a person accused or convicted of a crime to the foreign state in which the crime was committed?
extradite
The group sent by Spain, led by Hernan Cortes
Conquistadors
Having the right to self-government
Autonomous
Farmers focus on raising crops to eat rather than to sell.
Subsistence farming
This man was called "the Napoleon of the West", and was a political leader, general, and president. He was in power eleven different times.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
The treaty that ended the Mexican American War.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This civilization was noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, and for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems.
Maya
When the liberals returned to power in Mexico, in 1867, they were led by this man, who resisted the French occupation, overthrew the Second Mexican Empire, restored the Republic and used liberal efforts to modernize the country.
Benito Juarez
Factories in Northern Mexico, where workers earn low wages, with goods typically exported to the US
Maquiladoras
This man was Mexico's president from 1924-1928, but he controlled the presidency until 1935. He was called "El Jefe" and created the PRN.
Calles
The name of the immigration law that the U.S. currently follows.
Title 8
A CAUSE of Hernan Cortes actions in Mexico
He was looking for laborers for Caribbean plantations
The disappearance of the students in Iguala (2014) is an example of...
Government Corruption
Name one economic challenge in Mexico
Agriculture has suffered because farmers struggle to compete with U.S. imports.
Mexico's oil industry is in rough shape.
Mexico is too dependent on the U.S. for trade and money