ch 8 history vocab
The Junkers were radical Prussians who wanted to form an independent, democratic Germany.
False- Nobility- wealthy land owner
The drive for independence in Latin America was led by creoles, who were at the bottom of the social ladder.
False- were in 2 class- at the top
The German ruler who was a master of realpolitik, meaning "the politics of reality," was
Otto von Bismarck.
Camilo di Cavour, the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, worked to unify Italy and make it a nation.
True
Two early leaders of the independence movement in Mexico were Padre Miguel Hidalgo and Padre José María Morelos.
True
The creole general who won Chile's independence was
José de San Martin
The creole general who won independence for Colombia and Venezuela was
Simón Bolívar.
The school of political thought that favored giving more power to elected parliaments, but with only the educated and the landowners voting, was called
liberal
The belief that people's greatest loyalty should not be to a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history is called
nationalism
In the late 1700s, people who had been born in Spain formed the top of Spanish-American society and were called
peninsulares