Name
Class
CHAPTER
10
Date
Main Idea Activities 10.2
Mexico
VOCABULARY Some terms to understand:
• cultivation (224): farming; agriculture
• bases (224): foundations
• crucial (225): important; significant
• motive (225): reason; cause; purpose; incentive
• outposts (225): outlying settlements; camps
• ancestry (226): heritage; background; descent; lineage
• inequality (226): unevenness; disparity
• absolute (226): complete; total; unlimited; unbounded
• clog (227): stop up; block; choke; seal; plug
ORGANIZING INFORMATION For each of the following, write the letter of the correct
choice above its date on the time line below.
a. The Mexican Revolution ends.
b. Mexicans begin to revolt against Spanish rule.
c. Mexico joins Canada and the United States in signing NAFTA.
d. Spanish conquistadores land on the eastern coast of Mexico.
e. The Mexican Revolution begins.
f. Mexico wins its independence from Spain.
g. Mexico loses its northern territory from Texas to California in a war.
1519
1810
1821
1848
1910
1920
1992
EVALUATING INFORMATION Mark each statement T if it is true or F if it is false.
_____ 1. Mexico’s early farmers grew all of their crops together in the same plots.
_____ 2. The capital of the Maya Empire was Tenochtitlán.
_____ 3. The Spaniards who tried to conquer the Aztec died from Aztec diseases.
_____ 4. Spain wanted to colonize the Americas for its silver and gold.
_____ 5. Agriculture never really became an important part of the region’s economy.
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_____ 6. The Spanish organized ejidos into haciendas.
_____ 7. Roman Catholic missionaries tried to convert the Indians to Christianity.
_____ 8. Today most Mexicans are Protestant.
_____ 9. A plantation is a large estate farmed by workers who live on the property.
_____10. In 1992, ejido farmers won the right to sell their land, but none did.
_____11. Three quarters of Mexicans now live in towns and cities.
_____12. Mexican families tend to be larger now than they used to be.
REVIEWING FACTS Choose the correct items from the following list to complete the
statements below.
reform
dictator
mestizos
missions
ejidos
Aztec
Tenochtitlán
milpa
New Spain
1. An early style of cultivation known as
in Mexico today.
2. The
ern Mexico.
is still widespread
built an empire in what is today central and south-
3. The Spanish conquerors called their new American colony Nueva España, or
.
4. Spanish colonists built Mexico City on the ruins of
5.
.
were lands that the Indians worked in common.
6. Roman Catholic missionaries established frontier outposts known as
.
7. The majority of Mexicans today are
European and Indian ancestry.
, people of mixed
8. After the Mexican Revolution the government of Mexico took the form of a democ-
racy, but the president ruled like a(n)
.
9. One result of the Mexican Revolution was land
.
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Evaluating Information
1. F
7. F
2. T
8. F
3. T
9. T
4. T
10. T
5. F
11. T
6. T
12. F
SECTION 1 ACTIVITIES
Organizing Information
Sierra Madre Oriental—east; Sierra Madre
Occidental—west; Sierra Madre del Sur—
south
Evaluating Information
1. F
8. F
2. T
9. T
3. F
10. T
4. T
11. F
5. T
12. T
6. T
13. F
7. F
14. T
Reviewing Facts
1. Mexico City
2. Guadalajara
3. Campeche
4. Yucatán Peninsula
5. Monterrey
6. Tijuana
Understanding Main Ideas
1. b
4. a
2. d
5. c
3. a
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SECTION 1 ACTIVITIES
Evaluating Information
1. T
8. T
2. F
9. F
3. F
10. T
4. T
11. F
5. T
12. F
6. T
13. T
7. F
SECTION 2 ACTIVITIES
Organizing Information
1519—d; 1810—b; 1821—f; 1848—g; 1910—
e; 1920—a; 1992—c
Evaluating Information
1. T
7. T
2. F
8. F
3. F
9. T
4. T
10. F
5. F
11. T
6. T
12. F
Reviewing Facts
1. isthmus
2. Pacific Ocean
3. Caribbean Sea
4. Florida
5. West Indies
6. Bahamas
7. Hispaniola
8. Martinique
9. Cayman Islands
Reviewing Facts
1. milpa
2. Aztec
3. New Spain
4. Tenochtitlán
5. Ejidos
6. missions
7. mestizos
8. dictator
9. reform
Understanding Main Ideas
1. c
2. a
SECTION 2 ACTIVITIES
Classifying Information
1. e
5. g
2. a
6. b
3. d
7. c
4. f
SECTION 3 ACTIVITIES
Classifying Information
1. c
5. d
2. e
6. e
3. a
7. a
4. b
8. d
Evaluating Information
1. T
3. F
2. F
4. F
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