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Bellringer
Have out your study guide for the midterm with 1-27 completed and the Latin America Map!
Using the map you completed for homework, answer the
following
questions (you don’t have to write the questions down) on a piece of paper titled: “
Bellringer
, 1/4/11”
Name 4 countries that are a part of “Latin America”.
What European nation owns most of the land in Latin America?
What did
Touissant
L’Ouverture
do for the people of Haiti? (think back to your Napoleon notes)
What events were going on around the world that might influence revolutions in Latin America? (Hint: think about nationalism!)
BJOTD: Why do bees have sticky hair?Slide2
Objectives
The Students will know:
The major figures and countries that achieved independence from Europe in Latin America
What Latin America is
The colonial system implemented by the Europeans in Latin America
The Students will understand:
The Enlightenment and other revolutions in France and America helped to stimulate revolutions in Latin America.
The Students will be able to:
Analyze a political cartoon
Use a map to answer questions
Review for their midterm examSlide3
Colonial Authority and Latin American RevolutionsSlide4Slide5
Winning Independence
The American Revolution, French Revolution
and Enlightenment ideas encouraged the people of
Latin America
to rise up against
France, Spain, and Portugal.
Nationalism is
occurring
Strong pride in
their country
Sick of being ruled by a foreign country
Ocurred
in the late 1700s-1800Slide6
Who were they trying to get freedom from and why?
Wanted independence from
the
colonial powers
The colonial powers (Spain,
Portugal,
and France) were treating the Latin American people
very poorly
Colonial governments mirrored their home movements
Europeans on top
,
natives (Latin Americans) at the bottom of the system
Catholicism
was
forced upon the natives
Europeans used the natives in
slave-like roles
to
mine
precious metals
(silver
) Slide7
Europeans used the major Latin American cities as
outposts of colonial authority.
Cities: Havana
,
Mexico City, Lima
,
Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires
Conquistadors were made into viceroys or
colonial officers
who controlled
the cities and treated the
natives
very poorly Slide8
Latin American Society
1
st
-
Peninsulars
– men
born in Spain
(.1%)
2
nd
- Creoles
- Spaniards
born in Latin America
(22.8%)
3
rd- Mestizos- European and Indian descent (7.3%)4th- Mulattos- European and African descent (7.8%)5th- Indians- (55.8%)Mestizos, Mulattos and Indians were always discriminated againstCreoles (native-borns) were educated and traveled to Spain often. They did not believe they were getting the same rights as Spaniards. They followed Enlightenment ideasSlide9
Processing
What factors of life in the colonies could lead to revolutions? (Name Two)
What outside factors led to revolutions in the Latin American colonies?Slide10
The Major Rebellions
Haiti:
Saint
Domingue
(Haiti)
was
a French Colony
Toussaint
L’Ouverture
and 10, 000 slaves rose up and freed slaves throughout the
colony
Defeated troops from
Great Britain, France, and Spain
On January 1, 1804 Haiti was declared an
independent
colony Slide11
The Liberators End Spanish Rule
Simon Bolivar and Jose San Martin were
two brilliant
generals who were native to Latin America
Simon Bolivar declared
Venezuela
independent from Spain in 1811, but fought for its freedom and the freedom of
Columbia
until 1821.
Jose de San Martin worked to free
Argentina, Chile, and Peru.
He and Bolivar met in 1822, and they combined their armies to defeat the Spanish
Bolivar used the combined army to defeat the Spanish completely at the
Battle of Ayacucho
in
1824
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios y Blanco de RodríguezSlide12
Mexico Ends Spanish Rule
Started with
Father
Midel
Hidalgo,
a believer in the Enlightenment
Hidalgo led an army of
60,000
Indian and
Mestizo
followers against the Spanish
He died in 1811, but his work was carried on by others
1821- the Central American states declared
independenceSlide13
Brazil Freed from Portugal
Portugal’s royal family fled to
Brazil
to escape
Napoleon during the Peninsular War
When Portugal’s monarchy was
restored in Europe, the creoles asked Dom
Pedro (
the son of the
King of Portugal)
to rule Brazil independently from Portugal
On
September 7, 1822
Dom Pedro declared Brazil independent.
It was the only
bloodless
revolution in Latin America. Slide14
What was the U.S. Doing?
President Monroe
wrote a declaration called
The Monroe Doctrine
in 1823.
Latin American nations were acknowledged to be
independent.
The United States would regard as
a
threat to their own peace and safety
any
attempt by European powers to
take over any
independent state in the Western Hemisphere
Result: Europeans
stay away from the Americas Slide15