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| 320112911 | Toussaint L'overture | Leader of the slave rebellion on the French island of St. Domingue in 1791; led to the creation of the independent republic of Haiti in 1804. | 0 | |
| 320112912 | Miguel de Hidalgo | Mexican priest who started revolution among Native Americans and mestizos in 1810 | 1 | |
| 320112913 | Augustin Iturbide | Mexican soldier and leader; he won Mexican Independence from Spain and became dictator of Mexico from 1822-1823. | 2 | |
| 320112914 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule | 3 | |
| 320112915 | Gran Colombia | Independent state created in South America as a result of military success of Simon Bolívar; existed only until 1830, at which time Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador became separate states. | 4 | |
| 320112916 | Jose de San Martin | For spain against napoleon; helped liberate Argentina, chile, peru | 5 | |
| 320112917 | Joao VI | Portuguese monarch who fled the French to establish his court in Brazil from 1808 to 1820 | 6 | |
| 320112918 | Pedro I | son and successor of Joao VI in brazil; aided in the declaration of Brazilian independence in 1822 and became constitutional emperor | 7 | |
| 320112919 | Caudillos | Spanish word for military leaders | 8 | |
| 320112920 | Monroe Doctrine | an American foreign policy opposing interference in the western hemisphere from outside powers | 9 | |
| 320112921 | Guano | Bird droppings used as fertilizer; a major trade item of Peru in the late nineteenth century | 10 | |
| 320112922 | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | Mexican president who fought Texans in the Texas Revolution | 11 | |
| 320112923 | Manifest Destiny | a policy of imperialism rationalized as inevitable (as if granted by God) | 12 | |
| 320112924 | Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million | 13 | |
| 320112925 | Benito Juarez | a Mexican president (was Indian) who fought for a better life for the poor | 14 | |
| 320112926 | La Reforma | a liberal reform movement in 19th-century Mexico, led by Benito Juarez | 15 | |
| 320112927 | Maximilian Von Habsburg | Austrian archduke proclaimed emperor of Mexico as a result of French intervention in 1862; after the French withdrawal he was executed in 1867. | 16 | |
| 320112928 | Gauchos | Argentine cowboys | 17 | |
| 320112929 | Fazendas | Coffee estates that spread within interior of Brazil between 1840 and 1860; created major export commodity for Brazilian trade; led to intensification of slavery in Brazil. | 18 | |
| 320112930 | Modernization Theory | The belief that the more industrialized, urban, and modern a society became, the more social change and improvement were possible as traditional patterns and attitudes were abandoned or transformed. | 19 | |
| 320112931 | Dependency Theory | a marxist-oriented theory that explains the lack of capital accumulation in the third world as a result of the interplay between domestic class relations and the forces of foreign capital | 20 | |
| 320112932 | Porfirio Diaz | dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foreign companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants. Had power 1876-1911 | 21 |
