Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

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

The grasslands of South America.

A period of rapid economic growth in Brazil that lasted from 1968 to 1980.

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.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

An economic system in Latin America in which productive and accessible land was parceled out, often through Royal Charter, into large private estates.

An economic development strategy marked by protectionist policies in order to bolster local growth.

The principle of political or commercial cooperation between the US and the countries of South America, as well as those in Central America and the Caribbean.

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.

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

Occurs when countries, after very rapid growth from low to middle income status, falter due to poor infrastructure-poor roads and inadequate sanitation, education and health facilities- and low productivity.

The name for marginal settlements or slums in Brazil.

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