Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

The targeting and forced removal of ethnic minorities by other groups and/or the nation-state

The surface temperature of seawater.

Also referred to as voodoo. Emerged in the New World from the mixing of African and Christian religious beliefs and practices.

An area where waters drains from and flows into a river or a number of tributaries.

Factories in Mexico, often close to the US-Mexico border that export goods northwards to the USA.

The abandonment of cities and towns of the Mayan Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries.

A subtropical, semi-permanent, high- pressure zone in the Atlantic

A name given to the large drug trade in Central and South American.

Refers to people of mixed European-indigenous origin, including the vast majority of the people of Central America.

The name, most often used as a derogatory term, given to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua because their economies were based on tropical primary commodities such as bananas, but were also highly corrupt and unstable.

A policy implemented by the US that laid claim to geopolitical influence in the Central American and Caribbean region.

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