Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

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

Sector of the economy that is not recorded in government and official statistics, where few, if any, taxes are paid.

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.

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

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

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 surface temperature of seawater.

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

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

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

The principle of political or commercial cooperation between the US and the countries of South America, as well as those in Central America and the Caribbean.

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.

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