Latin American Vocabulary
fast-moving, small scale actions, used by a small fighting force.
What is guerrilla tactics?
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 country 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?
This person turned the tide of favor of the Mexican rebels when he and his army unit joined the rebels.
Who is Iturbide?
Descendants of Portuguese or Spanish settlers who were born in Latin America
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?
This person began Haiti's struggle for independence.
Who is Boukman?
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.
Who is George Washington?
Father Miguel Hidalgo made a speech called this.
What is the Cry of Delores?
This is the year that Mexico's War for Independence began.
What is 1810?
A regional strongman in a Latin American country.
What are caudillos?
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?
This Mexican ruler fought against the Texans at the Alamo.
Who is Santa Anna?
This is the name given to the night slaves began a rebellion in Haiti.
What is the Night of Fire?
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?
These guerrilla leaders were so successful because they fought for the causes of poor people.
Who is Villa and Zapata?
These are the last words of Hidalgo's independence speech.
What is Grito de Dolores?