Ch. 17 Vocabulary Flashcards
Caudillos
Independent military leaders with large personal followings.
“The Bully of the North”
The United States
Charles Darwin
The man who argued that all living species had evolved from earlier species through time as they adapted to changed in the environment.
Porfirio Diaz
Mexican dictator who reversed the policies of his predecessor, Benito Juarez, and encouraged entrepreneurship and foreign investment that resulted in the construction of railroads and telegraph lines and the production of mineral resources.
Dominion of Canada
Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick together; a self-governing political system still officially tied to Britain.
Federalist System
Powers shared by the central governemnt and its subunits.
Sigmund Freud
A Viennese physician who greatly altered psychology and related fields with his theories of the irrational, subconscious mind.
Isolationism
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, esp. the political affairs of other countries.
Isolationist Party
Political group of isolationists.
Andrew Jackson
Military general turned president who stretched the bounds of his political power.
Benito Juarezorm
A personalist with presidential power who started “La Reforma”
La Reforma
A movement aiming to limit the power of the military and church.
Monroe Doctrine
A warning against the Europeans messing with Americans
Jose Antonio Paez
He rose from poverty to become a military leader and led the independence movement of Venezuela against the efforts of Simon Bolivar to include it as part of Gran Columbia, and his success put him in control of the government as a dictator for eighteen years.
Parliamentary System
Canada became a parliamentary system, with a prime minister from parliament.
Presidential System
A system with a strong president with powers separated from those of Congress.
Personalist Rulers
Men with charismatic influence often rose to power through the force of their personalities, leading to personalist rule that gave them authoritarian control over their followers.
Regionalism
Identifying with a particular region rather than a large area.
Romanticism
A movement in arts and literature that started in Europe and Spread to America.
Juan Manuel de Rosas
He is an example of a caudillos, who rose from the pampas of Argentina to attempt to restore order in a country divided between the ranchers of the Pampas and the urban elite of Buenos Aires.
Spanish American War
An important event occurred in 1898 when the Spanish American War broke out, instigated by events in Cuba and Puerto Rico, Spain’s last colonies in the Americas.
Washington’s Farewell Address
It is a classic statement of republicanism, warning Americans of the political dangers they can and must avoid if they are to remain true to their values.
Civil War
An inter-country battle fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America after seven Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America. The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories.
