Simon Bolivar
1783-130; The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela, he led military forces there and in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
1753-1811; Mexican priest who led the first stage of the Mexican independence war in 1810. He was captured and executed in 1811
Jose Maria Morelos
1765-1814; 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
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
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
Andrew Jackson
1767-1845; First president of the United States to be born in humble circumstances. He was popular among frontier residents, urban workers, and small farmers. He had a successful political career as judge, general, congressman, senator, and president. Aft
Jose Antonio Paez
1790-1873; Venezuelean soldier who led Sim�n Bol�var'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 Bol�var's gov. in distant Bogot� and declared V
Benito Juarez
1806-1872; President of Mexico (1858-1872). Born in poverty in Mexico, he was educated as a lawyer and rose to become chief justice of the Mexican supreme court and then became president. He led Mexico's resistance to a French invasion in 1863 and the ins
Tecumseh
1768-1813; Shawnee leader who attempted to organize an Amerindian confederacy to prevent the loss of additional territory to American settlers. He became an ally of the British in War of 1812 and died in battle
Caste War
A rebellion of the Maya people against the gov. of Mexico in 1847. It nearly returned the Yucat�n to Maya rule. Some Maya rebels retreated to unoccupied territories where they held out until 1901
abolitionists
Men and women who agitated for a complete end to slavery. Their pressure ended the British transatlantic slave trade in 1808 and slavery in British colonies in 1834. In the United States the activities of abolitionists were one factor leading to the Civil
acculturation
The adoption of the language, customs, values, and behaviors of host nations by immigrants
Women's Right's Convention
An 1848 gathering of women angered by their exclusion from an international antislavery meeting. They met at Seneca Falls, New York to discuss women's rights
development
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the economic process that led to industrialization, urbanization, and the rise of a large and prosperous middle class, and heavy investment in education
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