Vocab

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Hacienda

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Large Spanish owed estates of land 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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the artificial watering of farmland by storing and distributing water drawn 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 is dissolved 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