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| 156217045 | Haciendas | Rural estates in Spanish colonies in New World; produced agricultural products for consumers in America; basis of wealth and power for local aristocracy. | 0 | |
| 156217046 | Mestizos | People of mixed European and Indian ancestry in Mesoamerica and South America; particularly prevalent in areas colonized by Spain; often part of forced labor system. | 1 | |
| 156217047 | Diaz | President of Mexico during the Mexican Civil War, modernized Mexico, led for over 35yrs, then resigned | 2 | |
| 156217048 | Zapata | This rebel commander led the 1910 revolution in Mexico. He wanted to give the poor the land, woods, and water that the landlords or bosses had taken., he raised a powerful revolutionary army, wanted land returned to the peasants and small farmers. he wanted the laws reformed to protect their rights | 3 | |
| 156217049 | Pancho Villa | a former bandit who claimed to represent "the people" behind the revolution; Wilson initially supported him; enraged when Carranza named de facto leader of Mexico and wanted to provoke American intervention, discredit Carranza, and himself up as an opponent of the "Gringos"; burned Columbus, New Mexico; American forces sent to pursue him but he eluded them | 4 | |
| 156217050 | Mexican Constitution of 1917 | Promised land reform; limited foreign ownership of key resources, guaranteed the rights of workers, and placed restrictions on clerical education; marked formal end of Mexican Revolution. | 5 | |
| 156217051 | Kahlo | Tejano writer. Wrote in original South Texas Spanish using vocab and dialect of migrants and shows that Tejanos didn't let economic exploitation defeat them., José Clemente Mexican muralist of the period after the Mexican Revolution; like Rivera's, his work featured romantic images of the Indian past with Christian symbols and Marxist ideology., wife of Rivera whose work was acclaimed worldwide in recent years. She painted many self portraits. | 6 | |
| 156217052 | Cardenas and reforms of his Mexican Revolutionary Party | president who made significant strides in respect to capitalism; he favored Mexican industry with government loans and protective tarrifs that ensured the creation of a captive market for high priced goods, PRM; used to be the National Revolutionary Party, until Cardenas brought peasants' and workers' organizations into the party | 7 | |
| 156217053 | Irigoyen | leader of the Radical Party in Argentina who became president there in 1916 | 8 | |
| 156217054 | Vargas | • Brazilian leader from 1930-54 • First ousted the brazilian republic of café com leite ○ Inaugurated the Second Republic and became president. Declared his dictatorship in 1937 with "Estado Novo". Was ousted in 1945. Returned to corrupt presidency in 1950, killed himself in 1954 | 9 | |
| 156217055 | Import-Substitution industrialization | An economic system aimed at building a country's industry by restricting foreign trade. It was especially popular in Latin American countries such as Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil in the mid-twentieth century. It proved successful for a time but could not keep up with technological advances in Europe and North America. | 10 | |
| 156217056 | Juan and Eva Peron | 7 May 1919 - 26 July 1952) was the second wife of President Juan Perón (1895-1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita, which literally translates into English as "Little Eva" | 11 | |
| 156217057 | Descamisados | Term meaning "the shirtless ones," popularized by Juan and Evita Perón to refer to the working-class masses and dispossessed. | 12 |
