Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

South America
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An indigenous group inhabiting lands in central Chile and southwest Argentina.

An attempt by a group or individual to overthrow an existing government in order to implement their own regime.

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.

A movement that seeks the reaffirmation of indigenous people and their rights.

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

A movement that values a renewed appreciation of African culture.

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

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.

An amalgam of gangs, ex military and military backed irregulars within a country, that were often involved in appropriations of peasant lands in South America.

An economic theory, named after famed economist John Maynard Keynes, in which government investments into economic activity are seen as a viable, and sometimes necessary, contributor to economic growth.

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

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