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| 333743306 | Simon Bolivar | Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule | 0 | |
| 333743307 | miguel hidalgo y costilla | Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811. (p. 625) | 1 | |
| 333743308 | jose maria morelos | Mexican priest and former student of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, he led the forces fighting for Mexican independence until he was captured and executed in 1814. (See also Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel.) (p. 626) | 2 | |
| 333743309 | confederation of 1867 | Negotiated union of the formerly separate colonial governments of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. This new Dominion of Canada with a central government in Ottawa is seen as the beginning of the Canadian nation. | 3 | |
| 333743310 | 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. Nineteenth-century examples include Jos? Antonio P?ez of Venezuela and Andrew Jackson of the US. (628) | 4 | |
| 333743311 | andrew jackson | 7th president of the US | 5 | |
| 333743312 | jose antonio paez | Venezuelan soldier who led Simon Bolivar's cavalry force. He became a successful general in the war and built a powerful political base. He was unwilling to accept the constitutional authority of Bolivar's government in distant Bogotá and declared Venezuela's independence from Gran Colombia in 1829. | 6 | |
| 333743313 | benito juarez | a Mexican president (was Indian) who fought for a better life for the poor | 7 | |
| 333743314 | tecumseh | a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813) | 8 | |
| 333743315 | 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. | 9 | |
| 333743316 | abolitionists | people who believed that slavery should be against the law | 10 | |
| 333743317 | acculturation | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | 11 | |
| 333743318 | women's rights convention | Meeting in Seneca Falls, New York of feminists; 1848; First meeting for women's rights, helped in long struggle for women to be equal to men | 12 | |
| 333743319 | development | act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | 13 | |
| 333743320 | underdevelopment | (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast | 14 |
