Ch.17 Flashcards
caudillos
independent military leaders with large personal followings
Strong military leaders
“The Bully of the North”
The United States
The tension over the northern states and the southern states in the U.S.
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.
Individual who believed in evolution.
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.
Individual who encouraged the productions of the industrial resolution.
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.
The British government spread through other countries.
federalist system
Like the United States, Canada was designed to be a federalist system, with powers shared by the central governemnt and its subunits.
The government shares many powers among different countries
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.
Individual who spread his opinion on psychology and other theories such as the scientific method.
isolationism,
isolationist policy
new nation -the United States - developed internally during the early 19th century and was preoccupied with western expansion and political stability, and an ocean separated them from Europe. As a result, Americans tried their best to stay out of European affairs, a philosophy reflected in George Washington’s farewell address to the nation in 1797. In 1823 this isolationist policy was written down in the Monroe Doctrine.
The Americans wanted to isolate themselves from western culture ( European)
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.
A president on the 5 dollar bill
Benito Juarez
This president is a personalist leader with liberal, secular leanings he started the La Reforma.
A president who started the La Reforma.
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.
A time to limit privaledged for the military and church. To make the equal.
Monroe Doctrine
It warned against European meddling in the Americas.
Warned Europeans to stop 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.
Led indepnc
parliamentary v. presidential system
Unlike the U.S., Canada became a parliamentary system, with a prime minister from parliament, rather than a presidential system, with a strong president with powers separated from those of Congress.
President is the head with powers seperated from 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.
People who wanted to control their own well being.
