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Chapter 10 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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plebiscite | a popular vote |
regime | a government in power |
emancipation | the act of setting free |
abolitionism | a movement to end slavery |
creole | a person of European dexcent born in Latin America and living there permanently |
peninsulare | a person born on the liberian Peninsula |
mestizo | a person of mixed European an dNative American descent |
intervention | the involvement in a situation to alter the outcome |
caudillo | in post-revolutionary Latine America, a strong leader who ruled chiefly by military force, usually with the support of the landed elite |
erupt | to suddenly become active or violent |
cash crop | a crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal use |
romanticism | an intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing |
individuality | a total character that distinguishes an individual from others |
appproach | the way or methof in which one examines or studies an issue or a concept |
secularization | indefference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration |
natural selection | the principle set forth by Charles Darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others |
realism | a mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower- and middle-class life as it actually was |