| A | B |
| Peninsulares | Latin Americans born in Spain |
| Creoles | Spaniards born in Latin America |
| Mulattos | Africans of people of mixed European and African ancestry |
| Mestizos | people of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry |
| Conservatives | people who supported the monarchy--wealthy property owners and nobility |
| Liberals | people who wanted to give more power to elected legislatures--middle class business leaders and merchants |
| Radicals | people who wanted to end the rule by kings and give full voting rights to all people |
| Nationalism | belief that a person's loyalty belongs to the nation itself instead of the nation's ruler |
| Nation-state | an independent nation of people having a common culture and identity |
| Balkans | the region of southeatern Europe now occupied by Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, the European part of Turkey, and former Yugoslavia |
| Red Shirts | the followers of the 19th century Italian Nationalist Leader, Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| Realpolitik | "the politics of reality" --the practice of tough power politics without room for idealism |
| kaiser | a German Emperor |
| Romanticism | a 19th century moevement in art and thought which focused on emotion and nature rather than reason and society |
| Impressionism | style of art using light and light filled colors to produce an "impression" --> artists reacted against realism by seeking to convey their impressions of subjects or movements of the time |
| realism | movement in art in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be |