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Mex terms
Question | Answer |
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Plaza | Areas in front of churches that served as markets or meeting places in early Spanish Mexico |
Haciendas | Large estates owned by wealthy families but worked by peasants, usually Indians |
Voodoo | a mix of African religions and Christanity found in Haiti that seeks to put spells on people |
Isthmus | A narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas |
Maquiladoras | American factories that lie just inside the Mexican border |
Caricom | Caribbean economic union |
Mestizos | People of Indian and Spanish and European ancestry |
Porto Rico | A commonwealth dependant state of the United States |
Cacao, Sugar and Coffee | Are major exports of the Central America |
bauxite | is an ore used in aluminum found abundantlly in Jamaica |
Mexico from 1920 to the 1980’s was | controled by a series of dictators |
Mulattoes | People of African and European ancestry |