Short Answer


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1 Sultan __________ lost his throne to a Janissary revolt in 1807.
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2 In 1808 Napoleon placed the king of Spain and his son under arrest and forced them to abdicate in favor of his __________.
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3 In Mexico the independence conspiracy among leading creoles moved Father __________ to turn to the Indians and mestizos of his region in 1810.
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4 __________, a creole officer at the head of the army sent to crush the independence movement in Mexico, instead joined forces with them and occupied Mexico City in 1821.
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5 The membership of the Ottoman Society for Union and Progress was also known as the __________.
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6 In 1822 Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador united into a new nation called __________.
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7 In Buenos Aires, __________ had emerged as the military commander willing to speak and act for independence.
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8 Paraguay declared and maintained its autonomy under Dr. __________, who ruled his isolated and landlocked country as a dictator until 1840.
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9 Peru and Bolivia were united between 1829 and 1839 under the mestizo general __________.
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10 The mobilization of large armies with loyalties to regional commanders led to the rise of __________, independent leaders who dominated local areas by force in defiance of national policies.
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11 A struggle often developed between __________ who wanted to create strong national governments with broad powers and federalists, who wanted policies to be set by regional governments.
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12 Muhammad Achmad, known to his followers as the __________, proclaimed a revolt in the Sudan against both the Egyptian heretics and British infidels.
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13 Mahdists found a suitable successor to Muhammad Achmad in __________.
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14 At the battle of __________ in 1898 the bulk of the Mahdist cavalry and its commander were slaughtered.
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15 A local leader named __________ was the architect of unity among the Manchu tribes.
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16 __________, a significant Confucian scholar in his own right, employed thousands of scholars to compile a great encyclopedia of Chinese learning.
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17 Following defeat in the Mexican American War, Mexico was forced to sign the disadvantageous Treaty of __________.
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18 One of the most influential opponents of Santa Ana following the Mexican American War was __________, a humble Indian who had received a legal education.
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19 The Liberal revolt against Santa Ana's rule, called __________, began in 1854.
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20 At French urging __________, an Austrian Archduke, was convinced to take the throne of Mexico in 1862.
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21 The last decades of the Manchu dynasty were dominated by the ultra-conservative dowager empress __________.
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22 The __________ rebellion broke out in 1898 and was only put down through the intervention of imperialist powers in 1901.
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23 In 1912 the last of emperor of China, a small boy named __________, was deposed.
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24 By 1862, in a movement resembling La Reforma in Mexico, the provinces surrounding the Rio de la Plata were united in a unified nation called the __________.
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25 President __________ of Argentina initiated a wide series of political reforms and economic measures critical of the rule of the caudillos.
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26 In the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, coffee estates or __________ began to spread toward the interior as new lands were opened.
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27 __________ theory held out the promise that any society could move toward a brighter future by essentially following the path taken earlier by the industrialization of Western Europe.
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28 In 1876 __________, one of Juarez's generals, was elected president and proceeded to dominate Mexican politics for 35 years.
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29 The outbreak of the __________ War in 1898 opened the door to direct U.S. involvement in the Caribbean.
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30 The __________, obtained in return for support of an independence movement, was a remarkable engineering feat and a fitting symbol of the technological and industrial strength of the United States.
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