Latin American Society
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 country led the first independence movement for Latin America
What is Haiti?
Two revolutions on either side of the Atlantic that took place prior to the Latin American Revolutions (Including Haiti)
What is the French and American Revolution?
Catholic priest who led the Mexican independence movement in 1810.
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo?
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?
This group that revolted in South America
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?
The percentage of the slave population in Saint Domingue at the start of the Haitian Revolution
Approximately 90%
Latin American military dictator
What is caudillo?
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 crop grown in Haiti that made it so valuable.
What is sugar cane?
This country is named after independence leader Simon Bolivar.
What is Boliva?
in 1820, this group switched sides and helped Mexico get its independence.
What are the Creoles?
Groups that led the Mexican Independence movement under the leadership of Father Hidalgo
What are Native Americans and Mestizos?
Who became the new ruler of Saint Domingue and renamed it Haiti
Who is Jean-Jacques Dessalines?
the use of hit-and-run tactics by small, mobile groups of irregular forces operating in territory controlled by a hostile, regular force.
What is guerrilla warfare?
U.S. opposed further European colonization of and interference with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
the year that Mexico became independence
What is 1821?