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The Consolidation of Latin America

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Latin America

Latin American Revolution

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Vocabulary

Who was Jose Morales and

Father Hidalgo?

These were the two Mexican

priests who called for Mexicans

to rise in revolt against the

Spanish.

Who was Simon Bolivar?

He became known as the “

George Washington of South

America” and the “ liberator”

and led a successful revolt

against the Spanish .

Who was Augustin de Iturbide?

This conservative leader with the

help of creole, mestizo, and

Native American soldiers

succeeded in overthrowing the

Spanish viceroy in Mexico.

Who were Simon Bolivar,

Bernardo O’Higgins, and Jose de

San Martin.

These were the three generals

who overthrew the Spanish in

Latin America.

What was Gran Colombia?

This was the former name

given to Colombia, Ecuador,

Venezuela, Nicaragua, and

Costa Rica.

What was Brazil?

This is the country that declared

independence from Portugal

after Napoleon’s armies attacked

and forced the royal family into

exile.

What was sugar cane?

This was the main economic

product of Haiti that helped

perpetuate the horrendous

conditions of brutality that led to

the slave revolt of 1791.

Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa

Anna?

He was the one-legged

leader, dictator who led

Mexico during the Mexican-

American War.

What was peonage?

This was the system

practiced by many wealthy

Mexican landowners to keep

agricultural workers bound

to the land.

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Who was Benito Juarez?

He was the Mexican

president who came to

power after deposing and

executing Emperor

Maximilian I.

What was the Monroe Doctrine?

This famous document

written in 1823 stated that no

European powers should

interfere in the western

hemisphere.

What was the Roosevelt Corollary?

This was the famous

addition to the Monroe

Doctrine issued in 1904, that

stated that the U.S. would

police the western

hemisphere.

What is guano?

These were bird droppings used as

fertilizer and exported from Peru as

one of the areas largest exports

between 1850 until 1880.

What were fazendas?

These were the large coffee

plantations which further

established slavery in Brazil.

Who was Auguste Comte?

He was the French Philosopher

of positivism and considered to

be the father of modern

sociology.

What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-

Hidalgo?

This was the agreement that ended

the Mexican American War and

allowed the U.S. acquisition of

Texas, California, Arizona,

Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona,

etc.

What was the Spanish American

War ?

This was the war that was fought in

1898 and allowed the U.S. to

acquire their first Imperial

conquests.

Who were centralists ?

These were Latin American

politicians who wished to create

strong national governments with

broad powers and often Latin

American conservatives.

Who was Juan Manuel de

Rosas?

He was the strongman leader in

Buenos Ares, Argentina who took

power in 1831 and had the

support of local gauchos or

cowboys ( yippe yay oh!!) .

What was the Panama Canal?

This was nicknamed the “ Big

Ditch” and cost countless lives

and money to build as well as

damaging U.S. - Latin

American diplomacy .

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Who was Marshall Andres

Santa Cruz?

He was the Mestizo general who

established the independent union of

Peru and Bolivia between 1829 and

1839.

Who was Dom Pedro I?

He was the son of Joao VI of

Portugal and became the first

emperor of Brazil in 1822.

What was positivism?

This was the scientific approach

to social problem s adopted by

many Latin American politicians

and Liberals after the

independence from Spain.

What was La Reforma?

This was the liberal revolt against

the forces of Santa Ana led by

Benito Juarez.

What were caudillos ?This was the name for the

strongmen dictators who

dominated local areas by force

and in defiance of national

policies in Latin America and it

means leader.

Who was Domingo Sarmiento?

He was the liberal politician and

president of the Argentine

republic who wrote Facundo a

critique of caudillos politics, and

instituted reforms in education

and transportation.

What was manifest destiny?

This was the theory that the

U.S. should stretch from the

Atlantic to the Pacific

Oceans.

What was the Haitian

Revolution?

This revolution led by a former

slave against the French was the

main reason Napoleon sold the

Louisiana Territory to the U.S.

Who was Toussaint L’Ouverture?

He led the successful revolution

against the French and even

though he was killed, his country

became the only non-slave

nation in the western

hemisphere.

What was the Dependency

Theory?This was the theory or belief that

development and

underdevelopment were not

stages but were part of the same

process in order for one to gain

the other must lose.