Ch 17IDS Flashcards
Caudillos
Definition: independent military leaders with large personal followings
Mine: important military people
“The Bully of the North”
Definition: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin
Mine: The North during the civil war
Charles Darwin
An important milestone came in 1859 with the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin, who argued that all living species had evolved from earlier species through time as they adapted to changed in the environment.
Mine: Evolution theory guy
Porfirio Diaz
Another example of foreign investment occurred in Mexico during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz from 1876 to 1911. Diaz reversed the policies of his predecessor, Benito Juarez, who had seized land from the church and other elites to redistribute to commoners. He encouraged entrepreneurship and foreign investment that resulted in the construction of railroads and telegraph lines and the production of mineral resources.
Mine: Dictator of mexico in 1876- 1911
Dominion of Canada
The British North America Act of 1876 joined Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick together as the Dominion of Canada, a self-governing political system still officially tied to Britain.
Mine: British lands in canada
Federalist System
Like the United States, Canada was designed to be a federalist system, with powers shared by the central governemnt and its subunits.
Mine: Power is shared between everyone
Sigmund Freud
The social sciences continued to rely on the scientific method for their development, although a Viennese physician, Sigmund Freud, greatly altered psychology and related fields with his theories of the irrational, subconscious mind.
Mine: guy who created theories of the irrational, subconscious mind
Isolationism
a 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.
Mine: Breaking off relations with a country
Isolationist Policy
National policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries
Mine: Policy that restricts assortment with a country
Andrew Jackson
He rose in the U.S. to become a military general known for his ability to inspire devotion from his men and also for his impatience with civilian authorities. His popularity and charisma led to his election as president, where he challenged constitutional limits on his authority, and substantially increased the powers of the presidency.
Mine: military general/president
Benito Juarez
This president, a personalist leader wit liberal, secular leanings, started La Reforma.
Mine: Important president
La reforma
A movement that aimed to limit the power of the military and the church in the name of equality, or “land and liberty,” according to its slogan. It limited the privileges of priests and military elites, and confiscated their lands to redistribute more equitably among the people.
Mine: Document that started promoting equality
Monroe Doctrine
It warned against Europeans meddling in the Americas.
Mine: When america bot mad at Britain and warned them to stop or else basically.
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.
Mine: Guy who led the independence movement in Venezuela
Parliamentary System
a 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.
Mine: a british congress
