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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Risorgimento | Meant the "Resurgence". The nationalistic movement that aspired for the resurrection of the Roman Empire. |
| Congress of Vienna | This restored all of the conservative monarchs back to power. Helped unify Germany. |
| Conservative | They were anti-Enlightenment and encouraged absolutism. |
| Liberal | They supported the Enlightenment and opposed absolutism. |
| Revolutions of 1848 | A series of unsuccessful liberal revolts in Europe. This raised nationalistic tensions. |
| Nationalism | The belief that people with a common language, background and heritage should unite to create a nation. |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | He was an extremely passionate nationalistic who wanted Italy to be a republic. Known as the "Father of Italian Nationalism". |
| Count Cavour | He unified Northern Italy though political manipulation and drove Austria out Northern Italy. |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | He used military power to expel the Spanish Bourbons from Southern Italy. Military known as the "Red Shirts". |
| German Confederacy | Was created by the Congress of Vienna to replace the Holy Roman Empire. This was a step towards German unification. |
| German Empire | Germany after the German Confederacy. The end result of the Franco-Prussian War. |
| Wilhelm I | The first emperor of the German Empire. The king of Prussia. |
| Otto von Bismarck | A leader of Prussia who instigated the Franco-Prussian war. The first Chancellor of the German Empire who was known as the "Iron Chancellor". |
| Franco-Prussian War | Instigated by Otto von Bismarck. This was the final push for German unification and helped with Italian unification as well. |
| Realpolitik | The philosophy developed by Otto von Bismarck. Politics should be based on practicality and efficiency rather morality or idealism |
| Mercantilism | Colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country. Due to this, free trade was eliminated and that was conservative. |
| Peninsulares | The top of the social structure in the Latin American colonies. People born in Spain who served the crown as Viceroys and Governors and as high colonial officers. |
| Criollos/creoles | They were the children of the peninsulares and were not allowed to hold high government posts. They did enjoy a high standard of living. |
| Mestizos | Part European and part Amerindian. Due to their partial European blood, they had a social status than those who were fully Amerindian. |
| Amerindian | The indigenous people of the Americas. They had a small measure of legal protection, but were still mainly poor and peasants. |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | A former slave who led the successful slave rebellion that secured the freedom of the enslaved population and ultimately, Haitian independence. |
| Father Miguel Hidalgo | A Catholic priest who rallied the peasant population of New Spain. He was captured and executed before the independence of Mexico. |
| Simon Bolivar | Known as "the Liberator". He led revolutions in Northern South America. While his vision of the formation of one nation named Gran Colombia failed, many independent nations were formed. |
| Monroe Doctrine | This was issued by President James Monroe. It protected Latin America from European control by stating that America would regard it as a threat if European powers tried to impose their systems upon any Latin country. |
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