Unit 5 Vocabulary Tracker - Latin America Revolutions and Nationalism

Camillo di Cavour (1810-1861)

a politician and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in Northern Italy and later Prime Minister of Italy who was a leader of the Italian unification movement

Father Miguel Hidalgo (1753-1811)

a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)

a general and Italian nationalist who was a leader of the Italian unification movement

Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)

a politician, journalist and Italian nationalist who was a leader of the Italian unification movement

Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)

a successful slave revolt and revolution that led to Haiti's independence from France

Independence movement

an attempt by one group to become independent from another

José de San Martín (1778-1850)

an Argentine general and leader of South America's independence movement from Spain

Nationalism

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

oppress

to treat in a way that is cruel or not fair

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)

a politician who was Minister President of Prussia and later Imperial Chancellor of the German Empire who was a leader of German unification.

He practiced policies called realpolitik and "Blood and Iron."

Simón Bolívar (1783-1830)

leader of Latin American Independence movements in South America

Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803)

an ex-slave and leader of the Haitian Revolution