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Latin America Flashcards

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A Spanish conqueror of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century

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Conquistador

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Regional customs and culture that define that place

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Regionalism

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A person appointed to rule

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Viceroy

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Large estate or plantation

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Hacienda

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Military or political leader

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Caudillo

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Sudden seizure of power from the government

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Coup d’état

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Prohibiting trade on another nation

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Embargo

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In Mexico a piece of Land farmed under a system supported by the gov

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Ejido

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A factory in Mexico run by a foreign company

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Maquiladora

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General increase in prices

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Inflation

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Brazilian slum

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Favela

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Economic theory to unify and increase the power of a nation by gov regulation of the economy

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Mercantilism

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Spanish system forcing the native Americans to work

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Encomienda system

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Leader of Haitian revolution in 1791

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Louveture

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Emperor of Incan empire before Spanish conquest

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Atahualpa

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Spanish settlers in what is now Texas

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Tejanos

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Battle between Texas and me for Texas

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Battle of the Alamo

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A canal that connects the Atlantic to the pacific

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Panama Canal

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Ended us Mexican war 1848

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Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo

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President of Mexico

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Santa Anna

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Something Roosevelt added to the Monroe doctrine that makes the US in force the Europeans demands on Latin America

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Roosevelt corollary

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Conflict between Mexican and Texan settlers from the us, ended the Mexican American war 1835

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Texas revolution

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Attempts of colonization by Europe in the Americas 1823

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Monroe doctrine

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Prince of Portugal

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Pedro 1

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A battle in the fight for Mexican independence

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Battle of Calderon

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Unification of LA

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Gran Columbia

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This illness was responsible for killing most of the French in Haiti

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Yellow fever

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First revolution after the American

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Haitian

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Importance of the French and American rev

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Both inspired Latin American nations

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Peninsulares, Creoles, mestizos, free blacks slaves.

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Class system

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Creoles were Americans by birth and Europeans by law, they did not have all the power they wanted, they were inferior to Peninsulares

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Creole discontent

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Why did the Creoles take a lead in the fight for independence?

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They were second highest social class
Wanted economic power
Wanted political control
Fear of social unrest

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Council in Spain that talks about the issues of the colonies

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Council of the indies

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1494 divided the new world between Portugal and Spain

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Treaty of tordesillas

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Protector of Indians, used blacks instead of Indians as slaves

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De las cases

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Exchange if goods diseases and people

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The Colombian exchange

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