front 1 Creole | back 1 Spanish person born in colonial Latin America. |
front 2 peninsulare | back 2 Spanish or Portuguese official born in Europe who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe. |
front 3 mestizo | back 3 A person of mixed European and indigenous descent. |
front 4 nationalism | back 4 A belief that emphasizes one’s national identity and prioritizes national pride and national goals above all else. |
front 5 romanticism | back 5 An intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the Enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowledge. |
front 6 liberalism | back 6 A political philosophy originally based largely on Enlightenment principles, which holds that people should be as free as possible from government restraint and that the basic rights of all people should be protected. |
front 7 realism | back 7 A mid-nineteenth-century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray life as it actually was. |
front 8 radical | back 8 Relating to a political group associated with views, practices, and policies of extreme change |
front 9 universal male suffrage | back 9 The right of all males to vote in elections |
front 10 multinational empire | back 10 An empire in which people of many nationalities live. |
front 11 plebiscite | back 11 A popular vote. |
front 12 emancipation | back 12 The act of setting free. |
front 13 abolitionism | back 13 The movement to end slavery. |
front 14 constitutionalism | back 14 A government ruled by a written constitution. |
front 15 individualism | back 15 Belief in the uniqueness of each person. |
front 16 militarism | back 16 The reliance on military strength. |
front 17 kaiser | back 17 German for “Caesar”; the title of the emperors of the Second German Empire. |
front 18 realpolitik | back 18 The “politics of reality,” which is based on practical matters rather than on ethics. |
front 19 cash crop | back 19 Agricultural crop grown to sell for profit |
front 20 caudillo | back 20 Military or political dictator |
front 21 Monroe Doctrine | back 21 Declaration by U.S. President James Monroe warning Europeans that the United States would come to the aid of any of its neighbors whose independence was threatened. |
front 22 imperialism | back 22 The practice of one nation controlling other nations by diplomacy or military force. |