Ch 17 Flashcards
Caudillos
describes a political-military leader at the head of an authoritarian power. The term translates into English as leader or chief.
MOW: A military or political leader with great power.
“The Bully of the North”
US nickname in Latin America
MOW: nickname for the US, they were bullies.
Charles Darwin
English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection
MOW: Natural scientist who brought the theory of evolution through natural selection.
Profirio Diaz
a Mexican soldier and politician, who served seven terms as President of Mexico, totaling nearly three decades – one month in 1876, then from 1877 to 1880, and finally from 1884 until he was overthrown in 1911.
MOW: Mexican president who ruled 3 decades until overthrown.
Dominion of Canada
Canada is a country in North America consisting of 10 provinces and 3 territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean.
MOW: Country above the US geographically with 10 provinces and 3 territories.
Federalist System
pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states.
MOW: states under a centralized gov’t.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian-born neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.
MOW: Austrian neurologist who found psychoanalysis.
Isolationism
category of foreign policies institutionalised by leaders who asserted that their nations’ best interests were best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance
MOW: idea for keeping other countries at a distance.
Isolationist policy
policy or doctrine of trying to isolate one’s country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, and generally attempting to make one’s economy entirely self-reliant.
MOW: Policy that shuts other countries out from the isolationist country and makes that country self reliant.
Andrew Jackson
seventh President of the United States. Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and the British at the Battle of New Orleans.
MOW:7th president who was army general and politician who fought against British.
Benito Juarez
Mexican lawyer and politician of Zapotec origin from Oaxaca who served as the president of Mexico for five terms.
MOW: President of Mexico for 5 terms; started off as lawyer and politician.
La Reforma
period halfway through the 19th century in the history of Mexico that was characterized by liberal reforms designed to modernize Mexico and make it into a nation state.
MOW: period in which reforms aimed to make Mexico into a nation state.
Monroe Doctrine
US foriegn policy regarding Latin American countries in the early 19th century. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
MOW: Foreign policy that regards European nations that try to interfere with North American states will be viewed as act as aggression.
Jose Antonio Paez
General-in-Chief of the army fighting Spain during the Venezuelan Wars of Independence.
MOW: general of the Venezuelan army during their war of independence with Spain.
Parliamentary system
system of democratic governance of a state in which the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from, and is held accountable to, the legislature (parliament); the executive and legislative branches are thus interconnected.
MOW: System of 3 branches which all hold equal power and check each others’ power.
