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Latin America
Latin American Revolutions
Question | Answer |
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Simon Bolivar | liberated Bolivia, Columbia, Peru, Panama, Ecuador, and Venezuela; served as president of Gran Columbia and as a revolutionary general; known as George Washington of South America; he wanted to join South America into one country |
Jose de San Martin | he liberated Argentina and Chile by crossing the Andes; South American revolutionary |
Pedro I | first emperor of Brazil; liberated Brazil by declaring independence from Portugal |
influences of the revolutions in Latin America | tensions between ethnic and social groups, the French revolution and American Revolution, and limited freedoms under Spanish rule |
Toussaint Le Ouverture | Haitian patriot and martyr who took control of Hispaniola; created Haiti |
Antonio Narino | he translated the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen into Spanish |
creoles | people of European descent born in the colonies |
peninsulares | colonists who were born in Spain |
weaknesses of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America | Napoleon invaded |
Father Miguel Hidalgo | Mexican revolutionary who made the first public call for independence; declares Spaniards the enemies of Mexicans; known as the Father of Mexican Independence |
Father Jose Maria Morelos | Creole leader of the Mexican Revolution after Hidalgo's death; created the Mexican Congress |
Augustin de Iturbide | first emperor of Mexico; liberated Mexico and brought many different groups of people together; believed in independence ruled with a monarch, equal rights for all peoples, and the Roman catholic Church as the official church of Mexico |
mulattoes | people of mixed African and European ancestry |
effects of the revolutions in Latin America | independence from Spain, new nations and new governments formed, and ethnic and social groups work together |