Time for Revolution
Mexico and the United States
Before 1521
Reform, Reform, Reform
Money Matters
100

During the revolution, this army was made up of cowboys, miners, railroad workers and farmers. They controlled northern Mexico.

Villistas

100

This 1994 treaty between the U.S., Mexico and Canada lowered barriers to trade.

North American Free Trade Agreement

100

The pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, and their descendants

Indigenous

100

During Cardenas's presidency, new factories were created to manufacture goods that Mexico had typically imported. This policy was called:

Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI)

100

A tax on an imported good.

Tariff

200

The conflict that resulted from Miguel Hidalgo saying that land had been stolen from the indigenous communities by the peninsulares.

Mexican War of Independence

200

President Calderon's military response to the Drug Cartels

War on Drugs

200

Some of the major achievements of the Aztec Empire? (Name one)

Causeways, aquaducts, used chinampas (floating islands) for farming.

200

A policy that protects around 800,000 young people, known as “DREAMers”, who entered the United States unlawfully as children, from deportation

DACA

200

The legal authorization which allows a person to work in a country where one does not hold citizenship?

Work Permit

300

This man was the leader of the Constitutionalists during the Revolution.

Carranza

300

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

300

The group sent by Spain, led by Hernan Cortes

Conquistadors

300

Having the right to self-government

Autonomous

300

Farmers focus on raising crops to eat rather than to sell.

Subsistence farming

400

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

400

The treaty that ended the Mexican American War.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

400

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

400

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

400

Factories in Northern Mexico, where workers earn low wages, with goods typically exported to the US

Maquiladoras

500

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

500

The name of the immigration law that the U.S. currently follows.

Title 8

500

A CAUSE of Hernan Cortes actions in Mexico

He was looking for laborers for Caribbean plantations

500

The disappearance of the students in Iguala (2014) is an example of...

Government Corruption

500

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