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| 138215563 | Gran Colombia | Independent state created in South America as a result of military successes of Simon Bolívar; existed only until 1830, at which time Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador became separate nations | 0 | |
| 138215564 | Junta Central | -Created by Spanish patriots fighting against the French (around 1808) to administer the areas they controlled -Most Spaniards viewed it as temporary patriotic institution created to govern Spain while king was French prisoner -Claimed the right to exercise king's powers over Spain's colonies -Some colonies, however, did not view this as a legitimate authority and rebelled. | 1 | |
| 138215565 | Caudillo | In Latin America, a personalist leader who gained and held political power without constitutional sanction, aka a military dictator | 2 | |
| 138215566 | Tecumseh | -A Shawnee chief who, along with his brother, The Prophet, worked to unite the Northwestern Indian tribes. -The league of tribes was defeated by an American army led by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. - Tecumseh was killed fighting for the British during the War of 1812 at the Battle of the Thames in 1813. | 3 | |
| 138215567 | Caste War | -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. | 4 | |
| 138215568 | Abolitionists | -believed that slavery should be prohibited everywhere in US -conflict over slavery increases (main part of Civil War) -Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin | 5 | |
| 138215569 | Acculturation | the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend | 6 | |
| 138215570 | Women's Rights Convention | -Convention of feminists at Seneca Falls, NY to rewrite the Declaration of Independence to include women. - "All men and women are created equal" -Declaration of Sentiments -1848 -First meeting for women's rights -helped in long struggle for women to be equal to men | 7 | |
| 138215571 | Development | A process of improvement in the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and technology. | 8 | |
| 138215572 | 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. | 9 | |
| 138215573 | Creoles | -of European descent but born in the New World -inferior social, political, economic status | 10 |
