Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

South America
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A term used to describe anti-imperialism rhetoric that promotes income redistribution, national sovereignty and a distancing from the orbit of power of the USA.

An economic ideology that promotes deregulation, minimal or small government, low taxation, and free trade.

Often follows an El Niño event, and is characterized by a decrease in sea temperature across the Eastern Central Pacific of up to 5 degrees C, which also has an impact on the weather of the region and across other regions of the world.

Based on the theories of John Maynard Keynes that posit government can influence economic growth through monetary policies to overcome price rigidity and imperfect labor markets.

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).

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

Volcanic regions fed by mantle from below the earth's surface. Nit caused by tectonic plate movement.

A region of South America that runs from Columbia, through Ecuador and Peru into Bolivia and parts of the Amazon rainforest with a significant indigenous population is primarily located.

An economic system in Latin America in which productive and accessible land was parceled out, often through Royal Charter, into large private estates.

Occurs when countries, after very rapid growth from low to middle income status, falter due to poor infrastructure-poor roads and inadequate sanitation, education and health facilities- and low productivity.

A movement that values a renewed appreciation of African culture.

The grasslands of South America.

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