North American Review
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- spain
- indepence in 1810
- french and indian war
- british gained control of quebec in their victory
- hudson bay lowlands
- covered by swamplands
- quebec act
- allow french to practice their religion culture and language
- little ice age
- fertile land froze and scandinavian population disappeared
- BC - AD 1492 in Spain
- pre-columbian period
- cinco de mayo
- a famous battle in mexico's defeat of the french
- illegal immigrants
- mexicans who have illegally entered the united states looking for jobs so they can send money back to their families
- hugo chavez
- wanted the venezuelan constitution changed so that he could be president for life but voters rejected the change
- 1850s to 60s
- mexico refused to pay european debts leading to an invasion by the french
- Mayan temples
- what southern Mexico is known for
- american revolution
- the quebecois side with britain
- NAFTA
- north american trade agreement allows trade between mexico canada and the US
- Embargo
- not allowing items from a foreign nation to be imported into your country
- interior plains
- canadas breadbasket region
- major canadian cultures
- british french native americans and eskimos
- yucatan peninsula
- composed mostly of limestone
- conquistadors
- spanish conquerers
- general patraeus
- commander of the us forces in iraq
- sierra madre occidental and oriental
- mountain ranges that rim the mexican plateau where most mexicans live
- gross domestic product
- measure of the total value of goods and services a country produces in a year Mexico is ranked 13th
- fiestas
- how mexicans celebrate
- service jobs
- type of jobs most canadians have
- agricultural products
- wheat barley corn rye and poultry
- arctic circle
- experiences 6 months of light and 6 months of darkness
- vincente fox
- elected president in 2000 after PRI became corrupt
- biome
- major ecological community where the plant and animal life and climate are similar to certain areas
- Mexico City
- swelling because farmers go there when they lose their jobs and US factories are giving mexicans jobs
- mexico city's metropolitan area
- 20 million people in the western hemisphere many live in poverty
- mederil warming period
- when vikings found the fertile coastline of greenland
- mestizos
- largest group in Mexico mix of Indian and Spanish
- stem cell research
- voted down by new jersey voters
- PRI
- came to power and gave small farmers portions of the large estates
- jena 6
- african american high school students charged with murder for beating up a white student after he hung nooses in a tree near their school
- Tarif
- tax on goods imported from other countrys
- Makladoras
- mexican factories on the other side of the border
- erik the red
- discovered greenland
- greenlands population
- inuits and danes
- tundra biome
- greenland and northern canada
- bravo del norte
- mexican name for rio grande
- Quota
- specifies the maximum of goods imported
- appalachian highlands
- covered by rocky shoreline
- Cheap Goods
- what mexicans buy using the money that canada and we provide for them
- canadian shield
- forms a horseshoe around hudson bay
- st lawrence lowlands
- most canadians live here because of its proximity to the us mild climate and the trade routes the great lakes provide
- Emiliano zapata and pancho villa
- led 1900's revolution
- oil tourism and money from illegal aliens
- how mexico gets its money 5th largest producer of oil in the world
- canada
- the worlds second largest country
- greenland
- the largest noncontinent island in the world and self-governing territory of denmark
- tundra
- a mostly cold biom lacking trees
- major natural resources
- water rich soil forest fish minerals
- Aztecs
- brutal people who lived on the mexican plateau
- quiet revolution
- quebecois gain more control over quebec and talk of separation from canada
- corn rice and beans
- mexican diet
- forestry products
- lumber paper syrup
- Spains religion and governmental system
- roman catholicism and republic
- day of the dead
- religious holiday also know as all saints day
- arctic islands
- covered by glaciers and tundra
- permafrost
- where the ground is frozen at the surface
- revolution of the 1900s
- caused by the tension between rich landowners and small farmers
- felipe calderon
- became current president after fox's 2 year term
- Trade Barrier
- government restriction on a trade
- pacific and rockies
- cordillera mountain ranges
- canadian mosaic
- all the cultures that make up canada
- Mayans
- native american group who lived on the yucatan peninsula
- nunavut
- a territory canada gave to the inuit population
- turkey
- shelled kurdish terrorists who have attacked and taken troops prisoners
- volcanoes
- extend across the southern edge of the mexican plateau