APWH Chapter 23 Vocabulary Flashcards

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