Unit 3 Dependence to Independence Name: _________________________
Study Guide
Part 1: Vocabulary Review – Use the words in the box to complete the following sentences.
Revolution – Mestizo – Caudillo
Hacienda – Colonies – Creole – Dependent
1. A ___________________________ was a military officer who gained power in Latin
America after independence.
2. A plantation (or large farm) owned by the Spanish or Catholic Church is also known as
_______________________________.
3. A ____________________________ is the overthrow of a ruler or government by a
group.
4. A ____________________________ is someone who was born in Latin America and
had Spanish parents or grandparents.
5. A ____________________________ is someone who has one Spanish parent and one
Native American parent.
6. Someone who is ______________________ relies on someone for support, or being
under someone else’s control.
7. _____________________________ are territories ruled by a more powerful mother
country.
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Unit 3 Dependence to Independence Name: _________________________
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Part 2: Timeline – Use the timeline graphic to answer the following questions.
1812-1813 Father
Jose Morelos takes
over Mexico’s fight
for independence
from Spain.
1811: Father
Hidalgo is
captured and
shot to death
by a firing
squad.
1808
1810
1810: Father
Miguel Hidalgo
calls for a revolt
against the
Spanish
peninsulares
1812
1814
1816
1820-1821: Augustin
de Iturbide guides
Mexico to independence
from Spain and declares
himself emperor.
1818
1815: Jose
Morelos is
executed by the
Spanish for
leading the
rebellions.
1820
1822
1822: Santa Anna
forces Iturbide out of
Mexico and begins a
new government
based on a
constitution
1. According to this time line, how long did it take for Mexico to gain independence?
2. How long did Jose Morelos fight for independence?
3. After Jose Morelos was executed, how long did it take for Iturbide to gain Mexico’s
independence?`
4. Why did Santa Anna force Augustin de Iturbide to resign as emperor?
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Unit 3 Dependence to Independence Name: _________________________
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Part 3: Short Answers – Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. How were social classes determined in Latin America? How and why did that influence
the revolutions in Latin America?
2. What were some arguments slave owners had to having and keeping slaves?
3. What events led to the revolutions in Latin America?
4. What were the ideas from the Enlightenment period and how did they influence the
Western Hemisphere?
5. How did the revolution in Haiti differ from the revolutions in South America and
Mexico?
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Unit 3 Dependence to Independence Name: _________________________
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Part 4: Complete the following chart.
Countries
Mother
Country
Names of the
revolutionary
leader(s)
Year of
Independence
Method of
revolution.
Violence or Nonviolence
Haiti
Mexico
Brazil
Venezuela
Argentina
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Unit 3 Dependence to Independence Name: _________________________
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Part 5 - Map Skills: Use the map above to answer the next 5 questions.
20. Between which two lines of latitude do you find the island of Aruba (south central
Caribbean Sea)?
21. Give the absolute location of San Juan, Puerto Rico?
22. Of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, the island(s) found furthest west? South?
23. Which country is north of Cuba? Name one country south of Aruba?
24. Name the island located at 24 degrees north latitude and 75 degrees west longitude.
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Unit 3 Dependence to Independence Name: _________________________
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Part 6: R.A.C.E.S. Essay – Respond to this quote by following the R.A.C.E.S. model. You
must cite evidence from the text and explain what it means and how it supports your answer.
Haitian Declaration of Independence
“Citizens:
It is not enough to have expelled the barbarians who have bloodied our land for two centuries.
We must, with one last act of national authority, forever assure the empire of liberty in the
country of our birth; we must take any hope of re-enslaving us away from the inhuman
government that for so long kept us in the most humiliating conditions. In the end we must live
independent or die.
Independence or death... let these sacred words unite us and be the signal of battle and of our
reunion.”
~Jean-Jaques Dessalines, Commander in Chief of Haiti, 1804.
What is Dessalines saying to the people of Haiti? What is he telling them to do?
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