A | B |
Charles X | rejected the Charter of French Liberties and believed in absolutism |
Louis Phillipe | "the citizen king" whose policies favored the middle class |
Louis Napoleon | people elected him president after the turmoil of the June Days |
Louis Kossuth | led Hungarian nationalists in demanding independence |
Clemens von Metternich | leader in Austria who was toppled in the "springtime of the peoples" |
Toussaint L'Ouverture | Haitian leader who led a successful slave revolt and inspired his people to fight for independence |
Miguel Hidalgo | Mexican priest who began the long revolt against Spanish rule |
Agustin de Iturbide | Creole who completed the Mexican fight for independence and declared himself emperor |
Jose Morelos | Mexican mestizo priest who fought for wide-ranging reforms |
Jose de San Martin | Argentinian Creole who helped Argentina win independence from Spain |
Simon Bolivar | Latin American creole who won Latin American independence and set up Gran Colombia |
Dom Pedro | became the leader of independent Brazil |
Tupac Amaru | Native American who organized a revolt against the Spanish in South America |