Chapter 4 Key Term Quiz

South America
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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 economic and political alliance of most European countries.

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

The region of the world that falls between the Tropic of Cancer (23.43 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.43 degrees South).

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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