WLC 2520

Guide for the Final Exam


A.     Geographic Identification.   On a map, can you identify the following characteristics?

a.      Slave Trade Triangle

b.      The Spanish Colonial Viceroyalties

c.      The three major movements for Independence (Hidalgo, San Martín, Bolívar)

d.      The countries of origin of the Modern Latin American Revolutionary Leaders (Zapata, Mariátegui, Mistral, Haya de la Torre, Cárdenas, Vargas, Perón, Castro)

B.     Historic and Cultural Identification. Can you come up with a basic definition of the following cultural-historic terms?  Can you identify the historic person or period?  Could you briefly explain what or who they are? Can you relate the following concepts or historic figures to a historic process or period of time we have studied?  

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Adam Smith

Baroque

Decadence

Enlightened Despotism

Enlightenment

Góngora / Quevedo / Cervantes / Calderón de la Barca / Lope de Vega

House of Bourbon

Industrial Revolution

Intendant System

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Laissez-faire

Mercantilism

Napoleonic Invasion

René Decartes

Syncretism

Urbanization

American Independence

Colonial complaints

El periquillo sarniento

French Revolution

Geopolitics

Haiti Slave Revolt

Phases of Capitalism

Simón Bolívar

Tupac Amaru

 

Agustín de Iturbide

Baron de Montesquieu

Colonial Social Reality: Creole vs. Spaniards

Cultural Legacy

José de San Martín

Miguel Hidalgo

Models of Democracy

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Bolívar’s Republic

Caudillo: Santa Anna vs. Facundo

Dom Pedro II

History and Heroes

Re/vision of history

The end justifies the means

Boom-Bust Economies

Feminism vs. Patriarchy

Foreign Investment

Land: Hacienda vs. Land Reform

Liberal vs. Conservative

Mexican-American War

Modern Industrialization: Monopolies and Railroad

Slavery and Indentured Servitude

Women vs. the Patriarchy

Communism and Socialism

Economic Dependency: raw material

José Guadalupe Posada

Monroe Doctrine

Paths to Modernity

Porfirio Díaz

Positivism

Slavocracy

State Violence

The Dictator

The Hacienda Store

 

Chapter 15

 

Bourgeoisie

Collective Arbitration

Economic Subordination

Expropriation

Human Rights

Lupenproletariat

New Latifundio

Paramilitary Commandos

Political Oppression

Standard of Living

Suffrage

C.     Analysis and Interpretation.  In this section you will write a commentary about or describe/define the nature of one of our last class readings (from “Rise of the Mass Politics” to “Of Man, Woman, and Time”.