Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

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

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

A term used to describe those with black and indigenous ancestry.

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.

The name for marginal settlements or slums in Brazil.

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

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 forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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.

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

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.

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.

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