Latin American Vocabulary
Leaders of the colonies in Latin America; born in Spain or Portugal
What are Peninsulares?
Led the revolt of Haiti against the French; Haiti was the first country to gain independence in Latin American.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This countru led the first independence movement for Latin America?
What is Haiti?
After the French and American Revolutions, what continent was inspired to fight for their independence?
What is South America?
These locations were named after ___________.
The Mexican state of Hidalgo.
The district of Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico City.
Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA.
Who is the priest, Miguel Hidalgo, who began the independence movement for Mexico against Spain.
Descendants of Portuguese or Spanish settlers who were born in Latin America; resented Peninsulares.
What are Creoles?
Led Mestizos and Native Americans to revolt against Spain in Mexico; leader of Mexico's Revolution.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
What was the name of the island before it became known as Haiti?
What is Saint-Domingue?
Bolivar and San Martin supported what kind of rights?
What is Creole?
Creoles liked these three revolutionary ideas.
What is free trade, equality before the law, and freedom of the press?
People who mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry; held few rights in Latin American; wanted to revolt.
What are Mestizoes?
Led revolts for freedom in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. Nicknamed the "Great Liberator".
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This country controlled Saint Domingue (modern day Haiti) prior to the French.
Who was Spain?
Simon Bolivar was known as this American Hero because he helped South America gain its independence from its mother country.
What is George Washington?
Father Miguel Hidalgo made a speech called this.
What is the Cry of Delores?
People of mixed African and European descent, and enslaved Africans in Latin America colonies; wanted to revolt against Spain and Portugal.
What are Mulattos?
Led revolts for Argentina, Chile, and worked with Bolivar to free Peru from Spanish rule?
Who is Jose de San Martin?
This was the resource found in Haiti that made it so valuable.
What is sugar cane?
This country is named after independence leader Simon Bolivar.
What is Boliva?
Most of Latin America was independent from Spain by this year.
What is 1825?
Father Hidalgo was this.
What is a priest?
Who became the new ruler of Saint Domingue and renamed it Haiti?
Who is Jean-Jacques Dessalines?
The French reintroduced this terrible system to the island of Saint Domingue (present day Haiti) when it took over the island?
What is the slave trade?
Simon Bolivar failed this goal of his.
What is to make a united states out of South America?
True or False. Mexico became a republic.
True.