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| 145151830 | Bracero Program | WWII program that allowed millions of cans to work temporarily in the US | |
| 145151831 | Caciques | local military strongmen | |
| 145151832 | Calderon, Felipe | Mexico's current president, elected in 2006 | |
| 145151833 | Camarillas | vast informal networks of personal royalty that operate as powerful political cliques | |
| 145151834 | Cardenas, Lazaro | Mexican President from 1934 to 1940 who implemented a radical program of land reform and nationalized Mexican oil companies | |
| 145151835 | Carranza, Venustiano | The Mexican Rev leader who eventually restored political order, ended the Rev's violence and defeated more radical challenges of Zapata and Villa | |
| 145151836 | Caudillos | national military strongmen | |
| 145151837 | Chamber of Deputies | The lower house of Mexico's legislature | |
| 145151838 | Confederation of Mexican Workers | Mexico's dominant trade union confederation that was a main pillar of the PRIs authoritarian regime | |
| 145151839 | Congress | Mexico's bicameral legislature | |
| 145151840 | Constitution of 1917 | Doc est by the Mexican Rev that continues to regulate Mexico's political regime | |
| 145151841 | Cortes, Hernan | Spanish conqueror of Mexico | |
| 145151842 | Criollos | Mexican-born descendants of Spaniards during the period of Spanish colonial rule | |
| 145151843 | cuauhtemoc | Aztec military leader defeated by the Spanish conqueror | |
| 145151844 | Diaz, Porfirio | Mexican dictator who ruled 1876 to 1910 and was deposed by the Mexican Rev | |
| 145151845 | Fed District of Mexico City | powerful Mexican district encompasses Mexico's capital city and contains most of its population | |
| 145151846 | Fed Electoral Institute | An independent agency that regulates elections in Mexico | |
| 145151847 | Fox, Vicente | Mexico's president since 2000, first non-PRI president | |
| 145151848 | Immigration Reform and Control Act | 1986 US immigration legislation that toughened American immigration laws while granting amnesty to many longtime undocumented workers | |
| 145151849 | Informal Sector | A sector of the economy that is not regulated or taxed because of the state | |
| 145151850 | Juarez, Benito | 19th century Mexican president who is today considered an early proponent of modern, secular and democratic Mexico | |
| 145151851 | Labastida, Francisco | First-ever PRI candidate to lose a presidential election | |
| 145151852 | Latifundistas | owners of latifundia (huge tracts of land) | |
| 145151853 | Madero, Francisco | An initial leader of the Mex rev and landowner who sought moderate democratic reform | |
| 145151854 | Maquiladoras | factories that import goods or parts to manufacture goods that are then exported | |
| 145151855 | Maya | Mexico's largest indigenous group | |
| 145151856 | Mestizos | Mexicans of mixed European and indigenous blood | |
| 145151857 | Mex-American War | Conflict between Mex and the US in which the US gained 1/3 of Mex territory | |
| 145151858 | Mexican miracle | spectacular economic growth in Mexico from the 1940s to 1980 | |
| 145151859 | Mexican Rev | bloody conflict in Mexico that est the long-lived PRI regime | |
| 145151860 | Mexico's War of Independence | A bloody 11 yr conflict that resulted in Mexico's independence | |
| 145151861 | Municipios | County-level gov in Mexican states | |
| 145151862 | Nahuatl | MEx's 2nd largest indigenous group | |
| 145151863 | National Action Party (PAN) | A conservative Catholic Mexican political party | |
| 145151864 | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | A free trade agreement linking Mexico with the US and Canada | |
| 145151865 | Partido Revolucionario Institucional | The political party emerged from the Mexican Rev to preside over an authoritarian regime that lasted until 2000 | |
| 145151866 | Patron-Client Relationships | system in which powerful gov't officials deliver state services and access to power in exchange for pol support | |
| 145151867 | Pemex | Mexico's powerful state-owned oil monopoly | |
| 145151868 | Portillo, Jose Lopez | Mexican pres who increased the role of the state in the economy and nationalized mexico's banking system to avert a national economic crisis | |
| 145151869 | Santa Ana | Mexico's first great Caudillo | |
| 145151870 | San Andres Peace Accords | 1996 accord that promised to end the artista rebel uprising but never implimented | |
| 145151871 | Secretariat of Gov't | top cabinet post that controls international affairs | |
| 145151872 | Secretariat of the treasury | most powerful economic cabinet minister | |
| 145151873 | Senate | upper house of legislature | |
| 145151874 | Supreme Court | highest court | |
| 145151875 | Televisa | largest media conglomerate | |
| 145151876 | villa, Francisco | northern Mex peasant leader of the revolution | |
| 145151877 | the War of the Castes | 19th century uprising of Mex's indigenous population | |
| 145151878 | Zapata, Emiliano | southern Mex peasant leader of the rev | |
| 145151879 | Zedillo, Ernesto | Mexico's president implemented pol reforms that paved the way for fair elections in 2000 |
