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| 64718761 | Simon Bolivar | 1783-1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule. Founded Bolivia. Agreed to emancipation in order to draw slaves and freemen to his cause and to gain supplies from Haiti. | 0 | |
| 64718762 | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla | Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811. | 1 | |
| 64718763 | Jose Maria Morelos | Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814. (See also Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel.) | 2 | |
| 64718764 | Confederation of 1867 | Negotiated union of the formerly separate colonial governments of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. This new Dominion of Canada with a central government in Ottawa is seen as the beginning of the Canadian nation. | 3 | |
| 64718765 | personalist leaders | Political leaders who rely on charisma and their ability to mobilize and direct the masses of citizens outside the authority of constitutions and laws. Nineteenth-century examples include Jose Antonio Paez of Venezuela and Andrew Jackson of the US. | 4 | |
| 64718766 | Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the US (1829-1837). General in the War of 1812. Defeated British at New Orleans (1815). Opposed the Bank of America. Objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers. | 5 | |
| 64718767 | Jose Antonio Paez | Venezuelan soldier who led Simon Bolivar's cavalry force. He became a successful general in the war and built a powerful political base. He was unwilling to accept the constitutional authority of Bolivar's government in distant Bogotá and declared Venezuela's independence from Gran Colombia in 1829. | 6 | |
| 64718768 | Benito Juarez | Mexican liberal leader imposed sweeping reforms (separation of church and state, land distribution to the poor, and an educational system for all) that provoked civil war. President of Mexico. Forced to flee when Mexico's conservatives allied with French invaders. | 7 | |
| 64718769 | Tecumseh | Shawnee chief who tried to united Native American tribes in Ohio and Indiana against encroaching white rule. Fought with British during War of 1812 and was killed. | 8 | |
| 64718770 | Caste War | Nearly returned Yucatan to Mayan rule. A rebellion of the Maya people against the government of Mexico in 1847. It nearly returned the Yucatan to Maya rule. Some Maya rebels retreated to unoccupied territories where they held out until 1901. | 9 | |
| 64718771 | abolitionists | people who worked to abolish slavery | 10 | |
| 64718772 | acculturation | the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend | 11 | |
| 64718773 | Women's Rights Convention | Fill In | 12 | |
| 64718774 | development | the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | 13 | |
| 64718775 | underdevelopment | The condition experienced by economies that depend on colonial forms of production such as the export of raw materials and plantation crops with low wages and low investment in education. | 14 |
