Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

Central America and Caribbean
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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.

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

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

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.

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

Prevailing winds that blow from east to west, named for their origin not their destination.

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

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.

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).

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

Prevailing winds that blow from west to east, named for their origin not their destination.

Currency from another country.

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