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| 56365675 | Andrew Jackson | The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). As president he opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers. | 0 | |
| 56365676 | Abraham Lincoln | U.S. statesmen, 16th president. Led Union to victory in Civil War. Assassinated. Sometimes called "Honest Abe". | 1 | |
| 56365677 | John Macdonald | 1815-1891; first prime minister of Canada and moved to incorporate all of British North America into the Dominion; negotiated the purchase of huge territories from the Hudson Bay Company in 1869; oversaw construction of a continental railroad | 2 | |
| 56365678 | Benito Juarez | The liberal reformer who strongly influenced Mexican politics. He was elected president in 1861 and 1867. | 3 | |
| 56365679 | Juan Manuel de Rosas | Strongman leader in Buenos Aires; took power in 1813; commanded loyality of gauchos; restored local autonomy | 4 | |
| 56365680 | Porfirio Diaz | a dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants | 5 | |
| 56365681 | Emiliano Zapata | leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which lasted 10 years; 1910-1920; faught for farmers' rights; gathered army in southern Mexico and urged farmers to join; Liberation Army of the South | 6 | |
| 56365682 | Louis Riel | Metis leader of the Manitoba and North-West rebellions | 7 | |
| 56365683 | Louisiana Purchase | A territory in the west central United States purchased from France in 1803; extended from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and the gulf of Mexico to Canada. (p. 409) | 8 | |
| 56365684 | Manifest Destiny | This expression was popular in the 1840s. Many people believed that the U.S. was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This rationale drove the acquisition of territory. | 9 | |
| 56365685 | Trial of Tears | 1838-1840, The marches in which the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory with thousands of Cherokee's dying on the way, 1838-1840, The marches in which the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory with thousands of Cherokee's dying on the way | 10 | |
| 56365686 | Mexican American War | War between Mexicans and Americans over the annexation of Texas | 11 | |
| 56365687 | Emancipation Proclamation | issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free | 12 | |
| 56365688 | Dawes Act | An act that removed Indian land from tribal possesion, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families. Designed to break tribal mentalities and promote individualism. | 13 | |
| 56365689 | Caudillos | military rulers who emerged in new republics across latin america | 14 | |
| 56365690 | La Reforma | a liberal reform movement in 19th-century Mexico, led by Benito Juarez | 15 | |
| 56365691 | Northwest Rebellion | An armed uprising of Métis and other Native people who wanted the Canadian government to recognize their rights, led by Louis Riel | 16 | |
| 56365692 | Gauchos | Argentine cowboys | 17 |
