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13 Cards in this Set
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Monroe Doctrine
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This document stated that the Americas were off limits for any colonization effort
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Caudillos
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Strong leaders of Latin America
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Cash crops
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crops that one grows for profit, and not for personal use
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Panama canal
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a 1914 canal that was a very big engineering achievement that connected both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans
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Toussaint L'overture
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A leader and former slave who drove all the foreign powers out of Haiti
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Miguel Hidalgo
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A priest who led a fight for independence for Mexico
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Jose de San Martin
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A liberator from Argentina who felt that the only way South America could be free only if it was rid of Spanish rule
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Simon Bolivar
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Led revolts in New Granada and Ecuador
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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A leader of Mexico who caused much trouble, including chaos, halting reforms, and misusing state forms
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Benito Juarez
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President succeeding Santa Anna who made many, many necessary reforms, such as separation of church and state and curving military powers
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Juan Manuel de Rosas
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a caudillo who was supported by the masses
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Francisco Madero
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I put revolutionary forces at work and also a liberal land owner
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Emiliano Zapata
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Aroused masses and began to redistribute land among land among masses
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