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Chapter 23
Identities
Marin, Laura
April 17, 2009
Period 3
Extra Credit
1. Simon Bolivar: was one of the most important leaders of Spanish America's
successful struggle for independence.
2. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla: was a priest and the leader of the Mexican War of
Independence.
3. Jose Maria Morelos: was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary
rebel leader who led the Mexican War of Independence movement, assuming its
leadership after the execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1811. He was later
captured by the Spanish colonial authorities and executed for treason in 1815.
4. Confederation of 1867:
5. Personalist Leaders: ability to mobilize and direct the amsses of these new nations
raher than on the authority of constitiutions and laws
6. Andrew Jackson: the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was
military governor of Florida in 1821, commander of the American forces at the
Battle of New Orleans (1815), and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy.
7. Jose Antonio Paez: was General in Chief of the army fighting Spain during the
Venezuelan Wars of Independence, in addition to becoming the President of
Venezuela once it was independent of the Gran Colombia (1830-1835; 18391843; 1861-1863).
8. Benito Juarez: was a Zapotec Amerindian who served five terms as president of
Mexico; Mexico's greatest and most beloved leader. Juárez was recognized by the
United States as a ruler in exile during the French-controlled Second Mexican
Empire, and got their support in reclaiming Mexico under the Monroe Doctrine
after the United States Civil War ended. Benito Juárez was the first Mexican
leader who did not have a military background, and also the first full-blooded
indigenous national to serve as President of Mexico and to lead a country in the
Western Hemisphere in over 300 years.
9. Tecumseh: was a famous Native American leader of the Shawnee. He spent much
of his life attempting to rally various native American tribes in a mutual defense
of their lands, which eventually led to his death in the War of 1812.
10. Caste War: began with the revolt of native Maya people of against the population
of European descent in political and economic control. A lengthy war ensued
between the Yucateco forces in the north-west of the Yucatán and the independent
Maya in the south-east. It officially ended with the occupation of the Maya capital
of Chan Santa Cruz by the Mexican army in 1901, although skirmishes with
villages and small settlements that refused to acknowledge Mexican control
continued for over another decade.
11. Abolitionists: people that wanted to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in
western Europe and the Americas
12. Acculturation: is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups of
individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact
13. Women’s Rights Convention: women and men were equal
14. Jose de San Martin: an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern
part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.
15. Agustin de Iturbide: forged an alliance with other remaining insurgents and
declared Mexico’s independence
16. Juan Manuel de Rosas: dominated Argentina for over two decades. The economy
expanded under his rule.
17. Mapuches: inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina
18. Maya: forced off their original agriculture land reducing thousands to peonage
19. Minas Gerais: riches in the mining industry
20. acculturation: modification of language, custom, values, and behaviors.
21. development: industrialization and prosperity
22. underdevelopment: low-wage industries
23. Confederation of 1867: new Dominion of Canada was made because of this
confederation
24. slavery: abolished in Britain in 1833
25. Navajo: largest North American native American tribe
26. Battle of Little Bighorn: was an armed engagement between a Lakota-Northern
Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States
Army. It occurred on June 25 and June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in
the eastern Montana Territory, near what is now Crow Agency, Montana.
27. Confederate States of America: formed as the government set up from 1861 to
1865 by eleven southern states of the United States of America that had declared
their secession from the U.S. The CSA's de facto control over its claimed territory
varied during the course of the American Civil War, depending on the success of
its military in battle.
28. Austrian Habsburg Maximilian: Mexican emperor