WG Unit 3 Americas Vocabulary 2023

Spanish or Portuguese speaking nations south of the United States

• Latin America

• Deforestation

• Political Instability

• Roman Catholic Christianity

Large scale process of clearing forests in order to use the land

• Latin America

• Deforestation

• Political Instability

• Roman Catholic Christianity

A weak government facing political challenges (ex. Riots, revolutions, civil disorders, frequent changes in government)

• Political Instability

•  Latin America

• Deforestation

•  Roman Catholic Christianity

Western European branch of Christianity, centered in Italy, led by the Pope

• Latin America

• Deforestation

• Roman Catholic Christianity

• Political Instability

One of the three major traditions in Christianity, began as a reaction against Roman Catholicism

• Protestant Christianity

• Roman Catholic Christianity

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor 

A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another place

• Protestant Christianity

• Push Factor

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Pre-Columbian Civilizations

Positive conditions that attract people to another location

•  Protestant Christianity

•  Columbian Exchange

• Pull Factor

• Slash and Burn Agriculture

The buying, transporting, and selling of African people for work in the Americas

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Pre-Columbian Civilizations

• Columbian Exchange

• Push Factor

Societies that developed in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans

• Pre-Columbian Civilizations

• Atlantic Slave Trade

•  Pull Factor

• Push Factor

Widespread exchange of the animals, plants, culture, human populations, and ideas between the New World and Old World

• Columbian Exchange

• Pre-Columbian Civilizations

• Slash and Burn Agriculture

• Subsistence Agriculture