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Chavez WH 24 Vocab
CH 24
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Peninsulares | Latin Americans born in Spain |
| Creoles | Spaniards born in Latin America |
| Mulattos | Africans or people of mixed European and African ancestry |
| Simon Bolivar | Leader of Venezuelan independence movement |
| Jose de San Martin | Leader who helped win independence for Chile and Argentina |
| Miguel Hidalgo | Priest who began the revolt against Spanish rule in Mexico |
| Jose Morelos | Leader of the Mexican revolt after Hidalgo was defeated |
| Conservative | People who supported the monarchy |
| Liberal | People who wanted to give more power to elected legislatures |
| Radical | People who wanted to end the rule by kings and give full voting rights to all people |
| Nationalism | Belief that a person's loyalty belongs to the nation itself instead of to the nation's ruler |
| Nation-State | Country with its own independent government |
| The Balkans | Region including all or part of present-day Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, and former Yugoslavia |
| Louis-Napoleon | Winner of the presidential election in France in 1848; later emperor |
| Alexander II | Ruler of Russia who freed the serfs |
| Russification | A policy of forcing Russian culture on ethnic groups in the Russian Empire |
| Camillo de Cavour | Prime minister who unified northern Italy |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | Leader of the Red Shirts who won control over parts of Southern Italy |
| Otto von Bismarck | Leader who worked to expand Prussia |
| Junker | Wealthy German landholders |
| Realpolitik | Tough, practical politics |
| Kaiser | Emperor |
| Confederation | Group that joins together for a common purpose |
| Czar | Emperor of Russia |
| Ethnic | Related to a religious, racial, national, or cultural group |
| Exile | State of being sent away from one's own country |
| Flee | Run away |
| Gothic Novel | Stories filled with fear, violence, or supernatural events |
| Grim | Harsh; hard to bear |
| Legislatures | Law-making bodies |
| Mestizos | People with mixed European and Indian ancestry |
| Turmoil | Disorder or confusion |
| Unify | Unite; create one country out of separate states or other political divisions |