JEOPARDY The Consolidation of Latin America
Categories Latin America Latin American Revolution Latin American Revolution Important People More Revolutions Important Events Vocabulary
Who was Jose Morales and Father Hidalgo? These were the two Mexican priests who called for Mexicans to rise in revolt against the Spanish.
Who was Simon Bolivar? He became known as the “ George Washington of South America ” and the “ liberator ” and led a successful revolt against the Spanish.
Who was Augustin de Iturbide? This conservative leader with the help of creole, mestizo, and Native American soldiers succeeded in overthrowing the Spanish viceroy in Mexico.
Who were Simon Bolivar, Bernardo O’Higgins, and Jose de San Martin. These were the three generals who overthrew the Spanish in Latin America.
What was Gran Colombia? This was the former name given to Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
What was Brazil? This is the country that declared independence from Portugal after Napoleon ’ s armies attacked and forced the royal family into exile.
What was sugar cane? This was the main economic product of Haiti that helped perpetuate the horrendous conditions of brutality that led to the slave revolt of 1791.
Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna? He was the one-legged leader, dictator who led Mexico during the Mexican- American War.
What was peonage? This was the system practiced by many wealthy Mexican landowners to keep agricultural workers bound to the land.
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Who was Benito Juarez? He was the Mexican president who came to power after deposing and executing Emperor Maximilian I.
What was the Monroe Doctrine? This famous document written in 1823 stated that no European powers should interfere in the western hemisphere.
What was the Roosevelt Corollary? This was the famous addition to the Monroe Doctrine issued in 1904, that stated that the U.S. would police the western hemisphere.
W hat is guano? These were bird droppings used as fertilizer and exported from Peru as one of the areas largest exports between 1850 until 1880.
W hat were fazendas? These were the large coffee plantations which further established slavery in Brazil.
Who was Auguste Comte? He was the French Philosopher of positivism and considered to be the father of modern sociology.
W hat was the Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo? This was the agreement that ended the Mexican American War and allowed the U.S. acquisition of Texas, California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, etc.
W hat was the Spanish American War ? ?? ? This was the war that was fought in 1898 and allowed the U.S. to acquire their first Imperial conquests.
Who were centralists ? These were Latin American politicians who wished to create strong national governments with broad powers and often Latin American conservatives. These were Latin American politicians who wished to create strong national governments with broad powers and often Latin American conservatives.
Who was Juan Manuel de Rosas? He was the strongman leader in Buenos Ares, Argentina who took power in 1831 and had the support of local gauchos or cowboys ( yippe yay oh!!).
W hat was the Panama Canal? This was nicknamed the “ Big Ditch” and cost countless lives and money to build as well as damaging U.S. - Latin American diplomacy.
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Who was Marshall Andres Santa Cruz? He was the Mestizo general who established the independent union of Peru and Bolivia between 1829 and 1839.
Who was Dom Pedro I? He was the son of Joao VI of Portugal and became the first emperor of Brazil in 1822.
What was positivism? This was the scientific approach to social problem s adopted by many Latin American politicians and Liberals after the independence from Spain.
What was La Reforma? This was the liberal revolt against the forces of Santa Ana led by Benito Juarez.
What were caudillos ? This was the name for the strongmen dictators who dominated local areas by force and in defiance of national policies in Latin America and it means leader.
Who was Domingo Sarmiento? He was the liberal politician and president of the Argentine republic who wrote Facundo a critique of caudillos politics, and instituted reforms in education and transportation.
What was manifest destiny? This was the theory that the U.S. should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
What was the Haitian Revolution? This revolution led by a former slave against the French was the main reason Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S.
Who was Toussaint L’Ouverture? He led the successful revolution against the French and even though he was killed, his country became the only non-slave nation in the western hemisphere.
What was the Dependency Theory? This was the theory or belief that development and underdevelopment were not stages but were part of the same process in order for one to gain the other must lose.