Geography
What Latin American country is our closest southern neighbor?
Mexico
Name the Spanish-Latin American social classes from most power to least power
Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Mulattoes
Natives/Indiginous
Enslaved
Previously, Haiti was called ________?
Saint Domingue
The indigenous class of Mexico was forced to work on
Haciendas
Who were the two revolutionaries that felt like Mexico's revolution was not complete?
What were the four European countries that colonized most of Latin American?
Netherlands, France, Portugal, and Spain
What two foreign events that were similar to the Latin American Independence movements influenced the Latin American Independence movements as a whole?
American Revolution and French Revolution
Name all of the Haitian Revolution leaders we studied from latest to earliest.
Dessalines
Toussaint
Boukman
The full name of Mexico's first revolution leader
Padre Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
What is the traditional strong man system called? Who was the first leader of it?
Caudillo
General Santa Anna
The name of the larger island that Hati shares.
Hispaniola
Name three traits of the mestizo class.
Part indigenous, part Spanish
Worked as crafts people, shop owners
Minor jobs in church
Few rich (could improve lives)
Better lives than natives/slaves
descent)
What was two of the second leader's major accomplishments for Haiti? What made him fall?
Created a government without slavery
Made trade treaties with GB/US
Napoleon!
Who were the leaders of Mexico's independence up until independence?
Hidalgo
Morelos
Iturbide
What were two things that Juarez did for Mexico that made him beloved?
- Created laws to guarantee equal rights for all
- build schools, roads, help the poor
- indigenous people = better lives
What is the biggest country in Latin America?
Brazil
Who were the two most influential Enlightenment philosophers to the Latin American Independence movements?
Locke and Voltaire
What was the third leader's major accomplishment for Haiti?What caused the French to lose?
Declare Haiti independent from France
Yellow Fever!
The second leader of Mexico's independence movement wanted what two specific things?
- gov needs to treat everyone equal
- law: only people from Mexico could hold gov office
- take away land from hacienda owner and give to workers
What were two things the last revolution leader were able to do before his death?
- farm commission to distribute land to people
- Mexico’s first agricultural credit bank
Haiti's eastern neighbor is?
The Dominican Republic :)
Name three traits of the creole class.
Born in Americas, but parents were born in Spain
Some rich, well educated
Not given important gov jobs
- looked down upon by peninsulares
Hated peninsulares
Haiti was one of the richest Caribbean colonies for France. What were two things they grew in the plantations?
sugar, coffee, and indigo
What was the specific city of the Literary and Social Club?
Queretaro
Where was Simon Bolivar born?
Venezuela!