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APWH McDougal--Latin America
Chapter 24.1 & 28.3-4
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10th Grade
02/24/2009

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Saint Domingue
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1st Latin American territory free of European rule; French; occupied western third of Hispaniola; African pop. overwhelmed whites; revolution from 1791-1804
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Boukman
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African priest (Saint Domingue) who called for the revolution which eventually created Haiti
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Toussaint L'Overture
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ex-slave who led the revolution to free Haiti from France
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Santo Domingo
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Spanish colony that occupied western two-thirds of Hispaniola, taken over by Toussaint's forces
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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Toussaint's general who took over revolution upon Toussaint's death; declared Haiti free in 1804
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mulattos
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persons of mixed European and African ancestry
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Spanish American social system
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peninsulares; creoles; mestizos (European/Indian); mulattos; Africans; Indians
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Simon Bolivar
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freed Venezuela then took over Martin's army and freed Peru
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Jose de San Martin
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freed Chile then gave his army up to Bolivar to free Peru
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Miguel Hidalgo
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issued cry for freedom that initiated Mexican revolution
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Jose Maria Morelos
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led revolution after Hidalgo for four years until defeated by Iturbide
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Agustin de Iturbide
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defeated Morelos; made peace with last freedom leader; declared himself emperor; overthrown after he refused to acknowledge the independence of Latin American states
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caudillos
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dictators that ran lil regions. or possibly entire countries, nobody is really sure. except God. i'm sure He knows, but perhaps He doesn't wish us to have that knowledge at the present time.
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Monroe Doctrine
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said Europe butt out of Americas, and Americas will butt out of Europe. we are actually very lucky that nobody really had any desire to violate this "doctrine" because we probably would have gotten our behinds kicked from here to next Tuesday. and we would be speaking Icelandic/Portugues/French/UK English/Chinese/Japanese/Greek/Russian/Czech right now. one of those. probably.
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Jose Marti
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writer who returned to Cuba to fight for independence but got killed. so he's pretty much a martyr. in the political sense of the word. i don't know if he was actually Catholic....probably, because it is Cuba. and i guess freeing a country from a brutal dictator could be considered Christian "beliefs" so it's entirely possible that he is a martyr in the religious sense of the word as well
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Spanish-American War
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when America helped Cuba overthrow their Spanish oppressors and later threaten to nuke us to kingdom come. that was fun.
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Roosevelt Corollary
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2x-5y+145i= no, jk......gave the U.S. the right to be an "international police power" in the Western hemisphere. although we pretty much came up with this ourselves, so that doesn't seem very fair. and then we totally ignored the Western Hemisphere part and decided to police Kuwait and Iraq and Afghanistan and Georgia I think, too....well I suppose everywhere is west of somewhere, so aren't we all in the Western Hemisphere??
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Benito Juarez
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he just sounds like a good guy. "benito." anyway, he was a liberal from a modest background who rose to power and tried to reform the Mexican government (he <3 education) but then that Santa Anna dude came along and exiled him. you know, I really don't like Santa Anna. but I do admire his persistence. he totally did not give up when the Texans caught him with a (probably) underage girl in his tent and then made him surrender in his pajamas. he just kept trying to beat down democracy and the power of the people....
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La Reforma
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redistribution of land (prolly to poor lil peasant farmers, etc); separation of church and state; educationalness
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Porfirio Diaz
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caudillo who rose to power and was totally corrupt and gave people land if they pretended to like him
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Francisco Madero
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US-educated Mexican guy who was arrested by corrupt man when he tried to run for president; started the Mexican Revolution
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Pancho Villa
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Robin Hood style cowboy type who totally helped with the whole Revolution bit
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Emiliano Zapata
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poor guy who raised a powerful revolutionary army and went around yelling "land and liberty" all the time. apparently, that was all he cared about....
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