Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

South America
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The economic and political alliance of most European countries.

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 term used to describe people with both black and white ancestry.

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

The name for marginal settlements or slums in Brazil.

Name given to the forest and woodland area of Brazil.

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

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

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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.

The grasslands of South America.

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

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