Use the Following to Answer Questions

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Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-Circum-Caribbean

• A)The establishment of political and economic influence over regions after they have ceased to be formal colonies.
• B)The doctrine that the United States should absorb the territory spanning from the original Atlantic states to the Pacific Ocean..
• C)Laws passed across the nineteenth-century Americas that instituted a gradual form of abolition through which children born to slaves gained their freedom.
• D)In Latin America, the small number of individuals and families that monopolized political power and economic resources since the colonial era.
• E)An ideology that advocated placing power in the hands of workers' unions.
• F)An addition to the Monroe Doctrine stating that the United States would correct what it saw as "chronic wrongdoing" in neighboring countries.
• G)The region encompassing the Antilles as well as the lands that bound the Caribbean Sea in Central America and northern South America.
• H)The 1848 treaty between the United States and Mexico in which Mexico ceded large tracts of land to the United States.
• I)Document written by Zapatistas during the Mexican Revolution that demanded the government return all land, forests, and waters taken from rural communities.
• J)The regime of Porfirio Díaz, who presided in Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and again from 1884 to 1911.
• K)Government by figures who rule through personal charisma and the support of armed followers in Latin America.
• L)An 1856 Mexican law that barred corporate landholdings.
• M)An 1823 proclamation that established a U.S. sphere of influence over the Americas by opposing European imperialism on the continent.
• N)Vast landed estates in Latin America.

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