AP World Chapter 31 Flashcards
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| 6424651575 | Andrew Jackson (Political; Pg. ) | The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). As president he opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers. |  | 0 |
| 6424653463 | Abraham Lincoln (Political; Pg. 851) | 16th president of the United States; helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy; an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery. |  | 1 |
| 6424653464 | John Macdonald (Political; Pg. 854) | This man was Canada's first prime minister. He expanded Canada westward to the Pacific Ocean, and began the construction of a transcontinental railroad that was completed in 1885 |  | 2 |
| 6424656234 | Benito Juarez (Political; Pg. 857) | Mexican national hero; brought liberal reforms to Mexico, including separation of church and state, land distribution to the poor, and an educational system for all of Mexico |  | 3 |
| 6424656235 | Juan Manuel de Rosas (Political; Pg. 857) | strongman leader in buenos aires; took power in 1831; commanded loyalty of gauchos; restored local autonomy. |  | 4 |
| 6424659641 | Porfirio Diaz (Political; Pg. 859) | Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910. |  | 5 |
| 6424670082 | Emiliano Zapata (Political; Pg. 859) | Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time, he was ultimately defeated and assassinated. |  | 6 |
| 6424672510 | Louis Riel (Political; Pg. 870) | Canadian rebel leader associated with Gabriel Dumont |  | 7 |
| 6424674625 | Louisiana Purchase (Political; Pg. 849) | 1803 - The U.S. purchased the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains from Napoleon for $15 million. Jefferson was interested in the territory because it would give the U.S. the Mississippi River and New Orleans (both were valuable for trade and shipping) and also room to expand. Napoleon wanted to sell because he needed money for his European campaigns and because a rebellion against the French in Haiti had soured him on the idea of New World colonies. The Constitution did not give the federal government the power to buy land, so Jefferson used loose construction to justify the purchase. |  | 8 |
| 6424709365 | Manifest destiny (Political; Pg. 849) | A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific. |  | 9 |
| 6424709366 | The Trail of Tears (Political; Pg. 849) | Native-Americans (particularly the Cherokee in Georgia and Tennessee) were forcibly removed from their land and made to march in the winter to reservations in Oklahoma. Over 4000 died out of 16000 who were forced to go. One of the greatest tragedies in American history. |  | 10 |
| 6424711999 | Mexican-American War (Political; Pg. 850) | (1846-1848) The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory. |  | 11 |
| 6424712000 | Emancipation Proclamation (Political; Pg. 852) | (AL) , Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free |  | 12 |
| 6424714185 | Dawes Act (Political; Pg. 868) | 1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners |  | 13 |
| 6424714186 | Caudillos (Political; Pg. 857) | By the 1830s, following several hopeful decades of Enlightenment-inspired revolution against European colonizers, Latin America was mostly ruled by these creole military dictators. | | 14 |
| 6424716991 | La Reforma (Political; Pg. 857) | 1855, Benito Juarez and other liberals open an era; offered hope to oppressed people of Mexico, revised the Mexican constitution to strip military power and end Church privileges; unleashed a civil war, but was still elected president in 1861 |  | 15 |
| 6424718758 | Northwest Rebellion (Political; Pg. 872) | armed uprising of metis and Native peoples led by louis Riel in Canada's district of Saskatchewan in 1885, for the purpose on forcing the Canadian gov't to recognize their rights |  | 16 |
| 6424722482 | Gauchos (Interactions; Pg. 873) | Argentine cowboys |  | 17 |
| 6424722483 | Golindrinas | 18 |