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Ch. 8 Vocab
Stack #210741
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| peninsulares | people who had been born in Spain |
| creole | Spaniards born in Latin America |
| mulatto | persons of mixed European and African ancestry and enslaved Africans |
| Simon Bolivar | a wealthy Venezuelan creole general |
| Jose de San Martin | a great Argentinian liberator |
| Miguel Hidalgo | a priest in a small town, Dolores, who took the first step towards independence |
| Jose Maria Merelos | a strong leader who led the revolution for four years |
| conservative | usually wealthy property owners and nobility. They argued for protecting the traditional monarchies of Europe |
| liberal | mostly middle-class business leaders and merchants. They wanted to give more power to elected parliaments, but only the educated and the landowners would vote |
| radical | favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people. They believed that governments should practice the ideals of the French Revolution- liberty, equality, and brotherhood |
| nationalism | the belief that people's greatest loyalty should not be a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history |
| nation-state | when a nation has its own independent government |
| the Balkans | the region that included all or part of present-day Greece, Albanis, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, and former Yugoslavia |
| Louis-Napoleon | Napoleon's nephew who was elected president and took the title of Emporer Napoleon III. He was widely accepted among the French people. He built railroads and encouraged industrialization gradually improving France so that it experienced prosperity |
| Alexander II | a Russian Czar who wanted to move Russia toward moderization and social change to allow Russia to compete with western Europe for world power |
| Russification | forcing Russian culture on all the ethnic groups in the empre |
| Camillo di Cavour | a cunning statesman who worked tirelessly to expand Piedmont-Sardina's power |
| Guiseppe Garibaldi | a bold visionary soldier who wore a red shirt and led nationalist rebels and agreed to unite the southern areas he had conquered with the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia |
| Junkers | strongly conservative of Prussia's wealthy landowning class |
| Otto von Bismarck | a conservaative Junker who became prime minister and a master of realpolitik, and became one of the most commanding figures in German history |
| realpolitik | German term meaning the politics of reality, used to describe tough power politics with no room for idealism. |
| kaiser | emporer |
| romanticism | movement that reflected deep interest in both nature and thoughts and feelings of the individual. |
| realism | relfected the increasing political importance of the working class in the 1850s. |
| impressionism | artists' impressions of a subject or a moment in time. |
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