Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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Elite groups that use their political power to enrich themselves rather the nation welfare and at the expense of general social welfare.

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

Occurred when European colonists came to the New World and brought diseases that killed millions of indigenous people.

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.

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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

Locations in which tariffs and other trade barriers are reduced or eliminated and goods, services, and capital are allowed to flow more freely between countries.

A group of people living outside of their homeland.

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

The dominance of a country by one city region

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

The region of the world that falls between the Tropic of Cancer (23.43 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.43 degrees South).

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