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