Chapter 3 Key Term Quiz

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

An underground layer of rock that bears water.

A city that is the largest in the country and is the center of economic and political life.

Currency from another country.

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.

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

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

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.

Name given to informal settlements in Lima, Peru.

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

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).

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

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