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- In Argentina, President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento hoped to see the wild countryside come under the influence of the cosmopolitan capital city of ____ ____
- True or false: Nineteenth-century Latin American women were able to carve spaces for themselves, outside the male world of machismo, in the home and the marketplace
- Although newly independent states in Latin America were generally republics with written constitutions, one of the reasons they were politically unstable was because
- True or false: Canada prevented U.S. forces from conquering Canada in the War of 1812
- New ____ opportunities drew a large influx of English-speaking migrants to Canada after 1812
- In the nineteenth century, Latin American economies were subject to considerable foreign control, most notably from
- In many Latin American states, political instability resulted in elite politicians being displaced by caudillos, or regional ____ leaders
- One reason that newly independent states in Latin America were unable to make a smooth transition to republican government was that the leaders had little experience with
- Canada's nineteenth-century economic boom was primarily funded by investment capital coming from
- La Reforma of the 1850s in Mexico resulted in a constitution that did all the following except
- Although some public figures, such as poet Walt Whitman, celebrated the multicultural makeup of the United States, U.S. society was largely dominated by males who traced their ancestry to the continent of
- In battles over land in South America in the 1800s, the most intense conflicts between Euro-American settlers and indigenous peoples occurred in
- In Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century, a group seeking to implement liberal reforms and create a rural middle class was led by President
- French forces sent by Blank______ to invade Mexico were defeated at Puebla in 1862
- In addition to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed some enslaved people, President Lincoln urged the passage of the ____ amendment to the Constitution, which completely abolished slavery in the United States
- By the mid-nineteenth century, the right to vote in the United States was no longer restricted to
- After the American Revolution, Britain ceded to the United States all the lands between the Appalachian Mountains and
- The belief that the United States had a divine mandate to expand across the North American continent from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific and beyond was known as
- One key factor in the victory of the northern states in the Civil War was that the north possessed about two-thirds of the nation's
- The U.S. document that allots responsibility to the federal government for general issues and to individual states for local issues is called the