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Chapter 8 Study Guide
Nationalist Sweep West
(30 pts.)
1. Individuals who were born in Spain and migrated to the Spanish colonies in America are called what?
2. ______are individuals who were Spanish, but were born in Spanish colonies in America.
3. Individuals of mixed African and European ancestry are called what?
4. Which European power did the colony of Haiti belong to before it became independent?
5. What was the main reason that allowed the salves to take control of the island of Haiti?
6. Simon Bolivar is a famous creole from ______.
7. Jose de San Martin is a famous creole from which S. American country?
8. The countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, & Ecuador were united into a country called ______.
9. ______was a catholic priest who called for Mexico’s revolt against Spain and ultimately sparked the pursuit of Mexican independence?
10. Brazil’s struggle for independence was much distinctly different from the rest of the Latin American countries because…
11. Brazil belonged to which European country prior to gaining its independence?
12. What were the three schools of thought that struggled for supremacy in Europe during the first half of the 1800s?
13. ______is 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 & history.
14. The region that the Ottoman Empire controlled that included present day Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, and former Yugoslavia is called what?
15. The ______system was a system in which the serfs were bound to nobles by working their land.
16. What major change was instituted by Alexander II in Russia?
17. What document was issued by Alexander II that called for the freeing of 20 million serfs?
18. What was the forcing of Russian culture on all of the ethnic groups in Russia during the Romanov dynasty?
19. What document was written by Abraham Lincoln that was very similar to the ideas expressed in Alexander II’s Edict of Emancipation?
20. What three empires were weakened due to nationalism?
21. What event occurred in the Ottoman Empire that was similar to the Jewish holocaust?
22. What TWO things allowed Camillo di Cavour to unite northern Italy?
23. What were Guiseppe Garibaldi and his followers known as?
24. What was Otto von Bismark an expert of?
25. What country did the Prussians and Germans invade to allow more land for Germany’s annexation?
26. After their defeat of France, Wilhelm I was crowned ______, or emperor of Germany.
27. What did the German’s call their new empire under the rule of Wilhelm I?
28. What type of literature became popular during the Romanticism movement?
29. What gothic horror story is Bysshe Shelley famous for writing?
30. Why did photography became the art of the Industrial Age?