Key Terms
This term describes countries relying on each other economically through trade and resources.
What is interdependence?
These are goods that a country sells to another country.
What are exports?
This Spanish leader formed alliances with Indigenous groups to defeat the Aztecs.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This was the main purpose of NAFTA.
What is increasing trade between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico?
These factories in northern Mexico produce goods for foreign companies.
What are maquiladoras?
This is a formal agreement between two or more nations to work together.
What is an alliance?
These are goods that a country buys from another country.
What are imports?
These Indigenous groups helped Cortés defeat the Aztecs.
Who are the Tlaxcalans?
This economic idea explains why countries depend on each other for goods and trade.
What is interdependence?
These factories are often located near this border.
What is the United States border?
This term describes the movement of people from rural areas into cities.
What is urbanization?
List three natural resources important in Mexico’s economy.
What is oil, corn, avocados?
These powerful weapons gave the Spanish a military advantage over the Aztecs.
What are guns and cannons?
This chart in the textbook shows what percentage of exports go to different countries.
What is the export chart/graph?
This is one reason companies build factories in Mexico.
What are lower wages/lower labour costs?
This agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico was designed to increase trade.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
Most of Mexico’s oil is located in this area of the country.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This strategy helped the Spanish defeat a much larger Aztec army.
What are alliances with Indigenous enemies of the Aztecs?
Some critics argue this country benefits the most from NAFTA.
What is the United States?
This population trend describes more people living in cities.
What is urbanization?
This term describes money invested by companies from one country into businesses in another country.
What is foreign investment?
This country receives the majority of Mexico’s exports.
What is the United States?
This deadly disease weakened the Aztecs and helped the Spanish win.
What is smallpox?
This relationship occurs when countries rely on each other for economic success.
What is economic interdependence?
Rapid urbanization can cause this environmental problem in cities.
What is pollution or environmental damage?