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Unit 7: Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution
Revolutions in Latin America
Use pgs. 681-686 to answer the following questions
1. What is the difference between the peninsulares and the Creoles?
2. Look at the graph on 681, which two groups made up the majority of the population in
Spanish America?
3. Look at the graph on 681, of the Europeans, which group-peninsulares or creoles-probably
made up the larger percentage? Why?
Go down to the Section titled “Creoles lead Independence”
4. What was the education like for creoles?
5. What did Napoleon do that started the Revolutions in Latin America?
6. Which country did Simon Bolivar help liberate from Spain? Where did he go next?
7. Which two countries did Jose de San Martin help liberate (without Bolivar)?
8. What was Gran Colombia? Who created it?
9. Look at the maps on 685, what is the major difference between Latin America in 1800 and
Latin America in 1830?
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10. Look at the map on 685, what areas remained colonies in 1830?
11. What was the grito de Dolores?
12. Why did Mexico’s creoles unite to support the movement for independence?
13. Which countries made up the United Provinces of Central America?
14. Which country did the countries of the United Provinces of Central America declare
independence from (Hint: NOT Spain)?
15. COMPARE AND CONTRAST How were the leaders of South American revolutions and
the Mexico Revolutions similar? How were they different?
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Unit 7: Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution
Revolutions in Latin America
Use pgs. 681-686 to answer the following questions
1. What is the difference between the peninsulares and the Creoles? Peninsulares were born in
Spain while Creoles were Spanish people born in Latin America
2. Look at the graph on 681, which two groups made up the majority of the population in
Spanish America? Europeans and Indians
3. Look at the graph on 681, of the Europeans, which group-peninsulares or creoles-probably
made up the larger percentage? Why? Creoles, were the ones born in Latin America, not from
Spain directly.
Go down to the Section titled “Creoles lead Independence”
4. What was the education like for creoles? Very well educated, educated in Europe, VERY
educated in Enlightenment thinking
5. What did Napoleon do that started the Revolutions in Latin America? He made his French
brother, Joseph, the King of Spain, Latin Americans were angered by this.
6. Which country did Simon Bolivar help liberate from Spain? Where did he go next?
Venezuela, Ecuador
7. Which two countries did Jose de San Martin help liberate (without Bolivar)? Argentina and
Chile
8. What was Gran Colombia? Who created it? Big country, made up of Venezuela, Colombia,
Panama, and Ecuador, created by Bolivar and San Martin
9. Look at the maps on 685, what is the major difference between Latin America in 1800 and
Latin America in 1830? All of central and southern America and Mexico are now independent
10. Look at the map on 685, what areas remained colonies in 1830? The Caribbean
11. What was the grito de Dolores? Declaration of Miguel Hidalgo to rebel against Spain
12. Why did Mexico’s creoles unite to support the movement for independence? Scared they
would lose their land and power
13. Which countries made up the United Provinces of Central America? Nicaragua, Guatemala,
Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica
14. Where did the countries of the United Provinces of Central America declare independence
from (Hint: NOT Spain)? Mexico
15. COMPARE AND CONTRAST How were the leaders of South American revolutions and
the Mexico Revolutions similar? How were they different? They were both well educated,
Priests vs. Educated Creoles, Mexico more corrupt.