pt.2? Flashcards
a French term meaning “people of color.”
Gens de couleur
a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.
Maroons/ maroon communities
a slave in Haiti who was one of the most visible early leaders of the Haitian Revolution
Boukman
the leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Toussaint L’Ouverture
a Spanish-born Spaniard residing in the New World or the Spanish East Indies.
Peninsulares
a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
Creoles
a Mexican Catholic priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.
Miguel de Hidalgo
a Venezuelan military and political leader who played an instrumental role in the establishment of Venezuela
Simón Bolívar
an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America’s successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire.
José de San Martín
a name used today for the state that surrounded much of northern South America and part of southern Central America.
Gran Colombia
one of Simón Bolívar’s earliest and most important political essays on the course of South American independence.
“Jamaican Letter”
the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil.
Emperor Pedro I
a military or political leader.
{in spanish speaking countries}
Caudillos
a politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confederation.
Juan Manuel de Rosas
a Mexican politician and general who greatly influenced early Mexican politics and government.
Lopez de Santa Anna
a Mexican lawyer and politician of Zapotec origin from Oaxaca who served as the president of Mexico for five terms.
Benito Juarez
a period halfway through the 19th century in the history of Mexico that was characterized by liberal reforms designed to modernize Mexico and make it into a nation state.
La Reforma
hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
Anti-Semitism
he national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.
Zionism
an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification
Cavour
an Italian general and politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy, one of Italy’s “father of the fatherlands”
Garibaldi
the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany’s Kriegsmarine.
Bismarck
