First president of the United States to be born in humble circumstances. Popular among frontier residents, urban workers, and small farmers. After being denied the presidency in 1824 in a controversial election, he won the 1828 and was reelected in 1832. He pushed for the removal/relocation of Native Americans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
a military leader, who became the preeminent leader of the independence movement in Spanish South America
Who is Simón Bolívar?
100
an 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of almost one-fourth of the Cherokee people
What is Trail of Tears?
100
an independent republic, which started when the regional politicians split with Mexico
What is Republic of Central America?
100
issued by President Lincoln which began the abolition of slavery
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
a Portuguese ruler that ruled from Brazil; he and his people fled from Napoleon in 1807, and he went back to Portugal, leaving Brazil in the hands of a regent
Who is King John VI?
200
a former student of Hidalgo's, that continued the revolution; he created a formidable fighting force, and convened a congress that declared independence and drafted a constitution
Who is José María Morelos?
200
an 1848 gathering of women angered by their exclusion from an international antislavery meeting
What is Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls?
200
the territory where patriot leaders in Buenos Aries first sought to retain control
What is Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata?
200
an act forcing the resettlement of the cherokee, Creek, choctaw,and other eastern people to land west of the Mississippi River
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
300
the president of Mexico, that was forced to flee to Mexico City when the French invaded
Who is Benito Juarez?
300
a rebellion of the Maya people agaist the government of Mexico in 1847; it nearly returned the Yucatán to Maya rule
What is Caste War?
300
founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists. Garrison burned the Constitution as a proslavery document. Argued for "no Union with slaveholders" until they repented for their sins by freeing their slaves.
What is American Anti-Slavery Society?
300
a single nation made out of Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador, made by Simón Bolívar
What is Gran Colombia?
300
an act that eliminated most Chinese immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
400
created by the Spanish as a new political body, it was used to administer the areas they controlled
What is the Junta Central?
400
a colonel with other loyalist commanders that forged an alliance with remaining insurgents and declared Mexico's independence
Who is Agustin de Iturbide?
400
the modification of language, customs, values, and behaviors of a group as a result of contact with people from another culture
What is acculturation?
400
the second important center of revolutionary activity in Spanish South America
What is Buenos Aires?
400
the type of government implemented by Pedro II in Brazil, in which a King or Queen acts as Head of State, and an elected Parliament makes and passes legislation.
What is Constitutional Monarchy?
500
a personalist leader who gained and held political power with out constitutional sanction
What is a caudillo?
500
he lead to support a mixed force of Chileans and Argentines, who crossed the Andes Mountains to attack Spanish military force in Chile and Peru
Who is José de San Martín?
500
two Shawnees leaders and brothers, created a larger and better organized alliance among Amerindian peoples in the Ohio River Valley and gained some support from Great Britain
Who are Tecumseh and Prophet?
500
The French invasion of Spain and Portugal caused the Portuguese royal family to move here from Portugal, causing the city to be declared as the new capital of Portugal.
What is Río de Janeiro?
500
negotiated the union of the formerly separated colonial governments of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia