Simon Bolivar
Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
A Mexican priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.
Jose Maria Morelos
A Mexican Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary rebel leader who led the Mexico War of Independence movement, took over after the the execution of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
Liberalism
A political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution.
Nationalism
Advocacy of political Independence for a particular country.
Cavour
Was a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification.
Garibaldi
An Italian General and Politician, considered one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"
Bismarck
A Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs with his conservative policies from the 1860's.
Prussia
A former Kingdom in North-Central Europe including present day northern Germany and Northern Poland; in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states.
Franco-Prussian War
A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany.
Zionism
A movement for the re-establishment and the development and protection of a Jewish Nation in what is now Israel.
Anti-Semitism
To be against the Jewish people.
Caudillos
In Spanish speaking regions, a military or political leader.