Day 76 Latin American People
Win Independence
•Standard: 10:2.1 and 10:4.2-4
• Homework: Cornell 247- 252
• Extra Credit Book
Open Veins Of Latin America
Course Of Mexican History
Movie Sugar Cane Ally
Historical Timeline Latin American Independence
Revolution in Haiti
• American and French
Revolution Begin To Spread
• Haiti was a French Colony
• Primarily a slave state
• Toussaint L’Ouverture Leads
Rebellion (100,000 slaves)
• Deal with French not to fight
and betrayal
• Others took up fight and
declared Independence of
Haiti (mountainous land in
Arawak)
Criollos
• Lead Revolution
• Napoleons Defeat of
Spain starts chain
reaction of Latin
American
Independence
Revolutionaries
• Simon Bolivar
• Jose de San Martin- helps
free Argentina in 1810.
Chile in 1817.Crossing the
Andes and joining forces
w/ Bolivar
• Bolivar leads rebellion in
Venezuela and was calling
for a Pan America
Simon Bolivar (Jamaica Letter)
“The role of the inhabitants of the American
hemisphere has been for centuries been purely
passive. Politically they were non existent…We have
been harassed by a conduct which not only deprived
us of our rights but has kept us in a sort of
permanent infancy with regards to public
affairs….Americans today, and perhaps to a greater
extent than ever before, who live within the Spanish
system occupy a position in society no better than
serfs destined for labor…Although I seek perfection
for the government of my country, I can not
persuade myself that the New world can, at the
moment, be organized as a great republic.”
Mexico
• September 16, 1810 – Grito
de Dolores (Padre Miguel
Hidalgo). Revolt ends in his
execution.
• Jose Maria Morelos (also a
priest) Than Leads Army
• 1822 Agustin de Iturbide a
Creole defeats Both and then
declares himself Emperor. He
is deposed and Mexico
becomes a Republic.
• 1823 United Province of
Central America Declares
Independence from Spain and
Mexico
Brazil
• When Napoleon Took
Portugal Royal Family
Fled and went to Brazil
• When Napoleon was
defeated Creoles
Demanded that King John
Son (Pedro I) become
King
• With Out War Brazil
Became Independent