Relating to a political group associated with views, practices, and policies of extreme change.
What is radical?
100
To suddenly become active or violent.
What is erupt?
100
In post-revolutionary Latin America, a strong leader who ruled chiefly by military force, usually with the support of the landed elite.
What is a caudillo?
100
The principle set forth by Charles Darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others: in popular terms, “survival of the fittest.”
What is natural selection?
200
The basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it.
What is a constitution?
200
Lasting for a limited time; not permanent
What is temporary?
200
A person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently.
What is a Creole?
200
A total character that distinguishes an individual from others.
What is individuality?
200
A mid-nineteenth century movement that rejected romanticism and sought to portray lower- and middle-class life as it actually was
What is realism?
300
A political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, favoring obedience to political authority and organized religion.
What is conservatism?
300
The right of all males to vote in elections
What is universal male suffrage?
300
A person of mixed European and Native American descent.
What is a mestizo?
300
The way or method in which one examines or studies an issue or concept.
What is an approach?
300
A person of mixed African and European descent
What is a mulatto?
400
The idea that great powers have the right to send armies into countries where there are revolutions to restore order.
What is the principle of intervention?
400
An empire in which people of many nationalities live.
What is a multinational empire?
400
A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal use.
What is a cash crop?
400
An intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the ideas of the Enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotion, and imagination as sources of knowing.
What is Romanticism?
400
A political system in which a ruler holds total power.
What is absolutism?
500
A political philosophy originally based largely on Enlightenment principles, holding that people should be as free as possible from government restraint and that civil liberties – the basic rights of all people – should be protected.
What is liberalism?
500
The involvement in a situation to alter the outcome
What is intervention?
500
A person born on the Iberian Peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe.
What is a peninsulare?
500
Indifference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration.
What is secularization?
500
The unique cultural identity of a people based on common language, religion and national symbols.