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Age of Exploration
Mexican History
Latin American Independences
American Civil War
Women's Rights
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This system believes that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver.
Mercantilism
100
Who led Mexico's first form of government after the Independence War?
Agustín de Iturbide
100
This country was different than the other Latin American independences in that it was more peaceful. Pedro I decided he wouldn’t go back to his home country and stayed to support these people, making good on his promises of reforms and deflation.
Brazil
100
What were the Union states trying to abolish?
Slavery
100
What rights did women in the 1800’s not enjoy? (Name at least 3)
Property, franchise, education and reproductive rights.
200
Who formed the West India Company?
The Dutch
200
This Plan established Mexico as a Constitutional Monarchy in the later stages of the Independence War.
Plan de Iguala
200
This uprising of slaves against the French exploiting their native lands is all that needs to be said about this revolution.
Haiti
200
What is a shared group feeling in the significance of a geographical and sometimes demographic region seeking independence for its culture or ethnicity that holds that group together?
Nationalism
200
Where was the First Women's Rights Convention held?
Seneca Falls, NY (1848)
300
The introduction of this species to the Americas altered the natives' lifestyles, enabling them to travel faster and over greater distances, as well as making hunting more effective.
Horses.
300
During Santa Anna's time, the liberals wanted to form a Republic based on the structure of which country?
United States of America
300
Roughly a million people were killed in this revolution as Bolivar and Miranda tried to free the country from an oppressive class system. The main ideas were to abolish the restrictive mercantilism laws by the monarch and revolt against French acquisition of the crown by Joseph Bonaparte.
Venezuela
300
The Southern States felt that the Union (Northern states) had no right to legislate for the South. This is known as...
States Rights
300
On which document did Stanton & Mott based their Declaration of Sentiments?
The Declaration of Independence
400
What is the name of the "forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas"?
Middle Passage
400
Under this Treaty Mexico lost half of its territory to the United States of America.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
400
O’Higgins joining the revolt against the revolt of oppression and exploitation to help this country receive economic and political independence from Spain. Freeing itself from the corrupt government of Carrasco wasn’t easy but in the end, victory
Chile
400
Name THREE positive effects of the Civil War.
1. The power in this county became more centrally focused. 2. The institution of slavery was abolished. 3. The Union was preserved. 4. The American economy moved from being primarily agriculturally based to being an industrial nation.
400
What was the "most radical demand" made by the women at the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848?
The right to vote
500
Explain the "Triangular Trade" that took place during this era.
European ships carried manufactured goods to Africa, which were sold in exchange for slaves, slaves where then sold to the Americas and Europeans brought raw materials from the Americas back to Europe.
500
What is the name of Porfirio Diaz's clique that oriented the modernization of the country through scientific politics and positivism?
The Scientists (Científicos)
500
Spain promised this country reforms after wiping out a majority of the native people and replacing them with African slaves. 400 years of Spanish rule, exploitation, high taxes and an unfair caste system was enough to start a revolution.
Cuba
500
Name THREE negative effects of the Civil War.
1. The hundreds of thousands American lives lost. 2. The economic devastation felt by the South for decades from the war. 3. The Reconstruction era that existed immediately after the was unconstitutional and produced anger in the minds of Southerners towards “carpet baggers” and other Northerners.
500
During the 19th Century, women were supposed to be 3 main things. Which were they?
Moral arbiters of society, keepers of cultural tradition and nurturers of children.