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ch 9-10
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| maritime | boarding on or near the sea; relating to navigation or shipping |
| province | a territory governed as a political division of a country |
| secede | withdraw formally from membership in a political or religious organization |
| separatism | |
| irrigation | watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or river |
| peninsula | a strip of land the jubs out int the ocean |
| plateau | area of high, flat land |
| sinkwhole | a hole formed when limestone is dissolved causing the land above to collapsemovement |
| cash crop | a farm crop grown for sale and profit |
| ejido | farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community |
| hacienda | Large Spanish owned estate in the America's often run as a farm |
| land redistribution | policy by which land is taken from those who own large amout |
| latifundio | large commercial farm own by a private individaul or farming company |
| migrant worker | worker who travels place to place, working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops |
| maquiladora | factory in mexico along the U.S border, that assembles goods for export |
| NAFTA | north american free trade agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the united states Canada and Mexico |
| substance farming |