Latina America Vocab Quiz

huge expanses of ranch or farmland *

• haciendas

• maquiladoras

huge city slums *

• favelas

• ghettos

a group of workers who won't work until their demands are met *

• favela

• strike

• protest

crops grown to sell for a profit *

• plantation crops

• cash crops

completely surrounded by land with no access to the ocean

• island

• peninsula

• landlocked

U.S. and foreign-owned factories in Mexico

• haciendas

• maquiladoras

rises in prices that occurs when currency loses its buying power

• tariff

• inflation

• embargo

• incentive

a fee that a country charges on imports or exports

• inflation

• tariff

• embargo

• incentive

a limit on trade

• embargo

• tariff

• incentive

members of an irregular military force *

• soldiers

• guerrillas

• isthmus

• archipelago