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?
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Chapter 9 |
Chapter 10 |
Chapter 11 |
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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
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Agustín de Iturbide Baron de Montesquieu Colonial Social Reality: Creole vs. Spaniards Cultural Legacy José de San Martín Miguel Hidalgo Models of Democracy |
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Chapter 12 |
Chapter 13 |
Chapter 14 |
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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
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Chapter 15 |
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Bourgeoisie Collective Arbitration Economic Subordination Expropriation Human Rights Lupenproletariat New Latifundio Paramilitary Commandos Political Oppression Standard of Living Suffrage |
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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”.