Chapter 8 Flashcards
Men who had been born in Spain
Peninsulares
Spaniards born in Latin America
Creoles
Persons of mixed European and African ancestry
Mulattos
Liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Peru
José de San martín
Gave Venezuela it’s independence
Simón Bolívar
Priest in a small village of Dolores, who called for rebellion against spanish with the “the cry of Dolores”
Miguel Hidalgo
Took command of the rebellion after Hidalgo died, controlled all southern Mexico except the largest cities
Padre José María Morelos
Wealthy property owners and nobility
Conservatives
Mostly middle class business leaders and merchants
Liberals
Favored drastic change to extend democracy to the people as a whole.
Radicals
The belief that one’s great loyalty should not be to a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history.
Nationalism
When a nation has its own independent government
Nation-state
Region that included all or parts of present day Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, and turkey
The Balkans
Nephew of Napoleon who took the title of emperor Napoleon III. He built railroads, and encouraged industrialization
Louis-Napoleon
Nicholas’s son who decided to move Russia towards modernization and social change
Alexander II
Victor Emmanuel’s prime minister who was wealthy, middle aged, who worked tirelessly to expand piedmont Sardinia’s power
Camilo di Cavour
Bold and romantic solider who lead a small army of Italian nationalists
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Followers of nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi
Red shirts
A conservative junker who was Wilhem’s prime minister
Otto von Bismarck
The policy of reality
Realpolitik
emperor
Kaiser
A movement of art and ideas
Romanticism
Idea that tried to show life as it is, not as it should be
Realism
A movement in painting, in which artists reacted against realism by seeking to convey their impressions or subjects or moments in time
Impressionism