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| 327731852 | Simon Bolivar | The most important leader in the struggle for independence in South America; led military forces in Venezuela and in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia | 0 | |
| 327731853 | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla | Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810; was captured and executed in 1811 | 1 | |
| 327731854 | Jose Maria Morelos | Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla; led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814 | 2 | |
| 327731855 | Confederation of 1867 | Negotiated union of the formerly separate colonial governments of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; seen as the beginning of the Canadian nation | 3 | |
| 327731856 | 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 | 4 | |
| 327731857 | Andrew Jackson | First president of the US; popular among frontier residents, urban workers, and small farmers; successful political career as judge, general, congressman, senator, and president | 5 | |
| 327731858 | Jose Antonio Paez | Venezuelan soldier who led Simon Bolivar's cavalry force; unwilling to accept the constitutional authority of Bolivar's government in distant Bogota and declared Venezuela's independence from Gran Colombia in 1829 | 6 | |
| 327731859 | Benito Juarez | President of Mexico; led Mexico's resistance to a French invasion in 1863 and the installation of Maximilian as emperor | 7 | |
| 327731860 | Tecumseh | Shawnee leader who attempted to organize an Amerindian confederacy to prevent the loss of additional territory to American settlers; ally of the British in War of 1812 and died in battle | 8 | |
| 327731861 | Caste War | A rebellion of the Maya people against the government of Mexico in 1847 | 9 | |
| 327731862 | abolitionists | People who agitated for a complete end to slavery | 10 | |
| 327731863 | acculturation | The adoption of the language, customs, values, and behaviors of host nations by immigrants | 11 | |
| 327731864 | Women's Rights Convention | An 1848 gathering of women angered by their exclusion from an international antislavery meeting | 12 | |
| 327731865 | development | The economic process that led to industrialization, urbanization, the rise of a large and prosperous middle class, and heavy investment in education | 13 | |
| 327731866 | 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 |
