FRA-Social Studies 5th ch 13 & 14
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- Pampas
- Is a flat grassy region and are located in Argentina
- Pacific Ocean
- What body of water borders Mexico on the west.
- Atlantic Ocean
- Into what major body of water does the Amazon River empty
- Brazil
- Is the South America's largest country.
- Hispanola
- Name of the island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti
- squatter
- a person who settles on land illegally; who settles on someone else's land without permission
- Emigrate
- The act of moving into another country
- Andron Country's
- Name the country that has Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia and are Meztizo and indegenous
- Panama
- Is the southern most country in Central America
- Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay
- Which countries have a lot of mestezo's and big cities
- Canal Zone
- An area controlled by the United States which includes land on either side of the canal, the ports, the port cities and the railroad.
- Cuba
- Is the largest island in the Caribbean
- Baseball and soccer
- What are the popular sports in the Caribbean
- Lock
- A section of waterway in which ships are raised or lowered by adjusting the water level
- Christianity
- major religion of Mexico
- Emigrate
- This is when Mexicans and Central Americans move to the United States
- Steel drum
- An instrument unique to the culture of the people of the Caribbean
- Injustice
- something that is unfair
- Mestizo
- People in Central America are of what ancestry
- Injustice
- Unfair treatment
- Northeast coast of South Africa
- The Caribbean island stretches from Florida to
- To find a job
- Why do people in Mexico and Central America emigrate to the U.S.
- Diversity
- Means variety
- Good schools and big houses
- This describes a way of life by wealthy people living in the cities of Mexico and Central America
- Ciboney
- Were the 1st inhabitants of he Caribbean Islands
- Import
- Something that is bought and brough into your country
- West Indies
- What is another name for the Caribbean islands
- Outskirts of teh city
- The poorest people in Mexico City usually live where
- Carnival
- Is a time celebrated for the beginning of lent
- West_Indies
- the string of islands between North and South America
- Guatemala
- A country just south of Mexico
- Strike
- This is when workers are struggling for their rights and they will stop working
- French, Creol, Spanish
- What languages are spoken in the Caribbean islands
- Brazil
- This country speaks Portuguese and have mixed descent.
- Political movement
- A large group of people who work together to defend rights or change governments
- Maquiladoras
- Mexicans living near the border within the US work in factories that are owned by U.S. companies called
- Lack of Education
- A problem facing all people living in Mexico City
- Haiti and Dominican Republic
- What two nations in the region occupy the same land
- Language
- This contributes to a person's culture
- False
- T/F The Panama Canal makes some ships travel father between the two oceans
- Ciboney
- Were the first people to live in the Caribbean
- Brasilia
- Is the capitol of Brazil
- Panama Canal Treaty of 1978
- Gave Panama more control over the canal.
- Migrant Farmworkers
- people who do not own land
- Spanish
- People of Bolivia are mostly
- Ethnic groups
- Are people who care race, language, religion, or cultural traits
- Guatemala
- People in this country speak many languages
- Atlantic Ocean
- What body of water borders Mexico on the east
- Mestizo and African
- Are the two main cultures of the island of Hispaniola (dominican Republic and Haiti)
- Andes Mountains
- Are located in Western South America
- South America
- The PC is the only way to sail from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantaic Ocean without going around.
- Strike
- work stoppage
- Plaza
- This is where Mexican villagers buy their food and everyday needs
- Subsistance Farming
- A type of farming in which farmers grow only enough food for their families to eat
- Export
- To sell goods to another country
- Africans
- Most of the Caribbean people today are descended from
- Few rich families
- Most of the land in Guatemala belongs to who
- Sugar
- What kind of plantations did the Europeans set up in the Caribbean
- Mexico City
- Mexico's largest city
- Venezuela
- This country's culture has the closest culture to the Caribbean islands
- Immigrant
- A person who moved to another country is called
- Spanish
- Who were the first Europeans to come to the Caribbean islands
- Northern South America
- Consist of Columbia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinome, and French Guanna and is borderd to the Carribean Islands
- Catholicism
- Most practiced religion by most people in Mexico and Central America
- Indigenous
- People who are descendants of the first people who lived in a region are called
- True
- T/F The Canal Zone includes land around the canal, the ports, and the railroad.
- Rigoberta Menchu
- He is a Mayan leader
- Native Americans
- May people who live high in the Andes are descended from
- Indigenous people
- People who live in the mountains in Guatemala because it is the only land available to them.
- False
- T/F The Panama Canal has belonged to many countries over the years
- False
- T/F The purpose of the lock in the Panama Cana is to keep out unwanted ships
- Indigenous people
- These people make up the majority of the population of Guatemala
- Poorest working people
- What type of people after having moved Mexico City travel several hours a day to get to their jobs and back
- Ladino
- Rich landowners of Guatemala who are descendants of Native Americans and Spaniards
- Central Plateau
- More than half of the country's Mexico population lives here.
- Spaniards first arrived
- The injustice toward the indigenous people of Guatemela first begin when the
- African
- Which tradition would a modern Caribbean culture blend
- False
- T/F The Panama Canal was bult through a large desert area.