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The basin of the Amazon River, containing the world’s largest rain forest, covering parts of Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and especially Brazil.

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Amazonia

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The nativist term used during the wars of independence that suggested a natural alliance between all people born in the New World.

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Americanos

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A Mesoamerican empire that united numerous, small, independent states under a single monarch. The population was near 25 million people. In 1521, they were conquered by Hernan Cortes.

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Aztecs

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A failed CIA operation by the US that, in April 1961, trained, financed, and deployed a group of Cuban exiles to overthrow the Communist regime in Cuba.

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Bay of Pigs

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A Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress who eventually became a “hot Latin” stereotype in Hollywood. She starred in Musicals featuring Brazilian dance and wore an iconic headpiece made of fruit. The headpiece was derived from Afro-Brazilian carnival-kitsch.

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Carmen Miranda

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A social hierarchy encoded in law and based on inherited characteristics, real or imagined, as opposed to socioeconomic factors. The system in Latin America corresponded more or less to race.

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Caste System

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A mass rebellion by the Mayan people that was inspired by prophetic messages spoken by a talking cross which told them to cleanse their land of white and mestizo rulers.

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Caste War of the Yucatan

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A strong political leader who commanded the personal loyalty of many followers in postcolonial Latin America.

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Caudillo

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People of European descent who were born in the New World.

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Creoles

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The Latin American revolutionary that was Fidel Castro’s right hand man during the Cuban Revolution

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Che Guevara

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A two-week standoff between the US and USSR in October 1962, sparked by the discovery of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. This was the closest the world had come to all-out nuclear war.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Led by Fidel Castro, this was the most influential revolutionary movement in 20th-century Latin America. It made an enemy of the United States for the next half-century.

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Cuban Revolution

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The result of years of psychological conditioning similar to brainwashing that convinces entire populations of their inferiority.

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Culture of Victimization

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A village in El Salvador that the US mistakenly thought was a guerrilla base. The US advised anticommunist troops to move in and it resulted in a massacre of the villagers.

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El Mozote

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An institution whereby groups of indigenous people were legally “entrusted” to a Spanish conqueror with the duty of paying him labor and/or tribute. In return the Spaniard was to provide instruction in Catholicism.

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Encomiendo

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A Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that conquered the Inca Empire in the 1530s.

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Francisco Pizarro

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US President Franklin Roosevelt’s non-interventionist approach to Latin America during the 1930s & World War II.

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Good Neighbor Policy

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Used by the Incas as fertilizer, this product–seabird manure that had accumulated on offshore islands for thousands of years–became the core of the Peruvian export economy in the 1840s.

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Guano

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The slave uprising that turned into a war for independence and created the first black republic in the New World.

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Haitian Revolution

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A basic principle of social control, in which a ruling class dominates others ideologically, with a minimum of physical force, by making its dominance seem natural and inevitable.

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Hegemony

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The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire and set the precedent for other plundering conquistadores.

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Hernan Cortes

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The European peninsula where present-day Spain & Portugal are located.

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Iberia

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An empire in the Andean highland valleys with a population of 4 to 6 million. They were conquered by Francisco Pizarro in 1533.

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Incas

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The Spanish ruler who funded the explorations of Christopher Columbus.

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Isabel of Castile

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The only European monarch to physically reign in the New World, he held court in Brazil, making it the political center of the Portuguese-speaking world in 1808.

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King Joao

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A cluster of political ideals, emphasizing freedoms, of various civil, political, and economic kinds.

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Liberalism

27
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The leader of the Cuban Revolution.

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Fidel Castro

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An artistic movement that supported the idea of mestizo nationalism. Frids Kahlo was one of its most famous artists.

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Indigenismo

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This political and economic point of view asserted that capitalism created class exploitation & that a privileged class within the dominated countries would profit from collaboration with outsiders. This point of view became associated with the nationalist struggles for decolonization and self-determination around the world.

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Marxism

30
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Latin American ethnic nationalism that focused on mixed-race identities

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Mestizo Nationalism

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Mixed Race

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Mestizo

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Leader of the Aztec Empire who was tricked into allowing Cortes’ army into the capital city in 1521. He was taken hostage during the invasion and slaughter of the city.

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Moctezuma (Montezuma)

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This group raised awareness of the disappeared children in Argentina’s dirty war.

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Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

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This treaty removed trade barriers between the US, Mexico, & Canada.

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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

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A political movement espousing a strong state government, national pride, and economic development in opposition to “imperialist” outside influences. Sometimes, but not always, there is a commitment to defending the poor majority.

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Nationalism

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The period between 1890-1930 when Latin American countries were politically independent, but experienced military intervention as well as economic and cultural influence from Great Britain, France, and the US.

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Neocolonialism

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Factories in Mexico where workers, primarily female, worked assembling imported parts into finish products that were sold cheaply to the US. These workers often did not make enough to live on, worked in unsafe conditions, were exposed to harmful chemicals, and had no benefits or workers protection rights.

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Maquiladoras

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This made corruption a necessary part of the political system by making personal relationships central to gaining benefits from a wealthier, more powerful person. These benefits were given in exchange for loyalty and service to the more powerful individual.

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Patronage

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Spanish residents in the New World during the Independence period, which was marked by conflict between these folks and New World-born residents.

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Peninsulares

40
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A style of politics aimed at the urban working class and the middle class.

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Populism

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The lingering effect of previous colonization on nations that have gained independence. In Latin America, the language, laws, religion, and social norms of the Spanish & Portuguese carried over almost entirely between 1825 & 1850.

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Postcolonialism

42
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Driving the Moors out of Iberia.

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Reconquest (Reconquista)

43
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This made the US marines a sort of police force for the entire Western Hemisphere that used military power to prevent European countries from interfering in Latin America or the Caribbean.

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Roosevelt Corollary

44
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A surge in the tapping of natural latex in Amazonia that produced great wealth for merchants at the beginning of the 20th century, but little monetary gains for the people of the region.

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Rubber Boom

45
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Mining this ore was the backbone of the colonial Spanish American export economy, with the main extractive centers in northern Mexico & Peru.

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Silver

46
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Known as the single most important leader of Spanish American independence in South America, this man helped liberate Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Gran Columbia from the Spanish.

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Simon Bolivar

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This crop was the backbone of the colonial San Domingian & Brazilian export economies.

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Sugar

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The former slave that rose to become a skilled general who helped transform the Saint Domingue slave insurgency into a revolutionary movement. He was tricked and taken into custody and died in France.

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Touissant L’Ouverture

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The creative interaction between two cultures, resulting in a new culture. This process of interaction between Europeans, Africans, and indigenous Americans created distinctive Latin American cultures.

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Transculturation

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The US commercial banana empire that consolidated earlier operations in the Caribbean basin to become one of the world’s first multinational corporations in the early 1900s.

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United Fruit Company

51
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The late nineteenth-century explosion in exportation, usually a single crop per country,that led to rapid,sustainable economic growth (but NOT industrial development) in Latin America.

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Great Export Boom

52
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Archbishop in El Salvador who preached liberation theology after the anticommunist cause started targeting priests & nuns.He was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating mass.

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Oscar Romero