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The Wars of Independence in Latin America
Question | Answer |
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Why was Haiti's independence so important? | 1.) sparked by policies of the French Revolution overflowing into the New World. 2) Haitian Revolution demonstrated that slaves could lead a revolt |
former slave, leader of 1791 Slave Rebellion | Francois-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture |
These 2 countries opposed the end to slavery, and coveted Haiti's sugar crop. They also wanted to put their own influence in the Caribbean | Spain and Great Britain |
Why were the Creoles discontent? | Latin American merchants wanted to trade more freely, wanted commercial regulations to benefit them, resented tax increases. |
white people born in Spain; Creoles resented Spanish policies that favored this group | Penninsulares |
The Creole elite feared a liberal Napoleonic monarchy in Spain would do what? | attempt to impose reforms in Latin America and would harm their economic and social interests |
political committees | Creole juntas |
center of revolt | Buenos Aires |
leading general of the Rio de la Plata forces, led an army in a march over the Andes Mountains | Jose de San Martin |
Chilean independence leader, established as the supreme dictator | Bernardo O'Higgins |
pursed a task similar to O'Higgins in the north; involved in organization of a liberating junta in Caracas | Simon Bolivar |
Creole priest who issued a call for rebellion to the Indians in his parish | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla |
leadership of this movement fell to this mestizo priest | Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon |
former royalist general who declared Mexico independent of Spain in 1821 | Augustin de Iturbide |
returned to Portugal and left his son as regent in Brazil | King Joao VI |