Vocab

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Hacienda

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Large Spanish estates run as farms or ranches.

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Land Redistribution

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A government policy of breaking up haciendas and distributing the land.

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Eijido

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Farmland owned collectively by farmers.

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Plateau

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an area of relatively level high ground

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Peninsula

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A strip of land that juts out into the ocean.

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Irrigation

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Artificial watering of farmland by storing and distributing water from reservoirs or rivers.

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NAFTA

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North America Free Trade Agreement

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USMCA

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United States Mexico Canada Agreement

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Sinkhole

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A hole formed when limestone dissolves, causing the land above to collapse.

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Subsistence Farming

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growing only enough crops to meet a family's need