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A laborer who travels from area to another and picks crops
What is a migrant worker?
A reason many people move from small villages to the city
What is to find work (and earn more money)?
In a typical Mexican, rural village, people living on farms get their food this way
What is grow their own food?
Problems facing Mexico City include poor housing, pollution, traffic and
What is a water shortage?
Mexico City’s pollution problem is made worse by its…
What is its geography (surrounded by mountains)?
Most people of Guatemala are of what ancestry?
What is Native American?
Most land in Guatemala is owned by…
What are a few rich families?
The Spanish Conquistadors had this effect on Native Americans
What is a negative effect? (many died of hunger, slavery and disease)
An agreement was signed in It resulted in something good for Guatemala
What is the end of their Civil War?
An effort to distribute land more equally and fairly is known as
What is land reform?
Refusal to work until certain demands are met, or can be used as a form of protest
What is a strike?
True or False: The U.S. was neutral in its role with Panama’s fight for independence
What is false? The United States was actively involved in Panama’s struggle.
Millions of Mayas still live in Mexico, Belize and ?
What is Guatemala?
About 900 A.D., the Mayas left their cities. There are no factual reasons only theories, such as:
There may have been drought, famine, disease or crop failure; or rebellion against their priests and nobles which caused the move
In 1996, an agreement was signed which resulted in some bad for Guatemala?
What are increase in human rights violation and protests in the streets?
To travel to unspoiled areas in order to learn about its environment
What is ecotourism?
In Guatemala, a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry
What is a ladino?
A large group of people who work together for political change
What is political movement?
A person who settles on someone else’s land without permission
What is a squatter?
It is used to raise and lower a ship, as it passes through the Panama Canal
What is a lock?
Panama Canal allows travel between two oceans
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
The reason that United States had to negotiate with Colombia in order to build the Panama Canal
What is Panama was part of Colombia at the time?
The main problem facing diggers of the Panama Canal
What are people working on the canal became ill with malaria and yellow fever?
Two reasons President Roosevelt wanted to dig the canal?
What are to benefit the U.S. Navy and improve trade between the two oceans?
The amount of time allowed the U.S. when the first Panama Canal Treaty was signed
What is forever?