LATIN AMERICAN PEOPLES

WIN INDEPENDENCE

LATIN AMERICAN PEOPLES

WIN INDEPENDENCE

COLONIAL SOCIETY1. Peninsulares – People born in Spain but living in America

2. Creoles – People of Spanish descent born in America

3. Mestizos – People of Spanish & Indian Mix

COLONIAL SOCIETY

4. Mulattos – People of Spanish & African Mix

5. Africans – Slaves from Africa

6. Indians – Native Americans

• Conquistadors• Governors

PENINSULARES

CREOLES• 2nd Generation

Governors• Military leaders

Simon Bolivar

MESTIZOS• Workers• Majority of

modern day Mexicans & Latin Americans

MULATTO• Workers

AFRICAN• Slaves

INDIANS• Slaves

HAITIAN INDEPENDENCE1. Why did slaves in the French

Colony of Saint-Domingue revolt?• Whites used brutal methods

to terrorize & dehumanize them

• Slaves outnumbered masters

HAITIAN INDEPENDENCE2. What events led up to Gen.

Dessalines’s declaration of independence for Haiti?

• Imprisonment of Toussaint L’Ouverture

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S. AMERICAN WARS FOR INDEPENDENCE

3. How did events in Europe lead to revolution in the Spanish colonies?

• Creoles revolted against Spain when Napoleon made his brother King of Spain

S. AMERICAN WARS FOR INDEPENDENCE

4. What tactics did Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar use to defeat Spanish forces in S. America?

• Bolivar used Surprise• San Martin Liberated Chile• Together, they unified the

Revolution

END OF SPANISH RULE IN MEXICO

5. What is the significance of the grito de Dolores?

• “Cry of Dolores”• Peasant Rebellion

MIGUEL HIDALGO

• Leader of grito de Dolores

END OF SPANISH RULE IN MEXICO

6. What role did Indians, ,Mestizos, & Creoles play in Mexico’s independence from Spain?

• Indians & Mestizos begin the revolt

• Creoles take positions of leadership within the revolution