Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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A group of people living outside of their homeland.

A plan in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century by Scottish investors to establish a colony of Scottish settlers in the isthmus of Central America.

A national or regional economy that relies heavily of the profits from the trade in illegal drugs.

Refers to a situation in which the concentration of a nation's population in just one city.

A trade union between Canada, Mexico and the USA.

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

A way of thinking about the world that considers the relationship between one's location and another and is sensitive to people/environment relations.

A term used to describe people with both black and white ancestry.

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

Goods that come from agriculture, forestry, mining, and fishing.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

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.

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