AP World History: The Americas After Independence Flashcards

9409908921	manifest destiny	the united state's goal to include land all the way from the atlantic to the pacific	0
9409908922	monroe doctrine	described the isolationist policy; warned against european meddling in the americas	1
9409908923	emancipation proclamation	due to the north's victory, it was issued to declare freedom for all slaves in the united states	2
9409908925	mexican war	resisting america's hold and intervention in mexico	3
9409908926	spanish american war	started when the U.S. joined spain's last colonies to help them fight for their independence	4
9409908928	romanticism	an important movement in arts and literature which emphasized the importance of and tried to reach human emotion	5
9409908936	regionalism	identity with a particular region rather than a large area	6
9409908937	caudillos	independent military leaders with large personal followers	7
9409908938	charles darwin	(for evolution) argued that all living species had evolved from earlier species through time as they adapted to changes in the environment	8
9409908939	sigmund freud	viennese physician; greatly altered psychology and related fields with his theories of the irrational, subconscious mind	9
9409908940	la reforma	a movement that aimed to limit the power of the military and the church in the name of equality, or "land and liberty"	10
9409908941	benito juarez	seized land from the church and other elites to redistribute to commoners	11
9409908942	porfirio diaz	promoted the interests of large land owners, wealthy merchants, and foreign investors (mainly U.S. businessmen)	12
9409955785	federalist system	powers are shared by the central government and it sub-units	13
9409960293	isolationism	ideology adopted by Americans that encouraged staying out of European affairs	14
9409987048	Dominion of Canada	the joining of Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into one country	15
9409992440	Andrew Jackson	Military general known for his ability to inspire devotion from his men and his impatience with civilian authorities.	16
9410060452	parliamentary v. presidential system	prime minister instead of a strong president	17
9410064325	personalist rulers	charismatic men who led through the force of their personalities	18
9410106787	Washington's Farewell Address	Speech laying the ground work for isolationist foreign policy in the U.S.	19
9410249357	Juan Manual de Rosas	Caudillo who rose to power from the Pampas in Argentina	20