Social Hierarchy in Latin America
These people were enslaved, brought to Latin America, and forced to complete manual labor.
Africans
The MAIN money-making crop on Haiti
Sugar
The name of the official currency of Venezuela
Bolivar
This "H" word describes a system of ranking people, based on their privilege (or lack of it).
Hierarchy
These people were born in Latin America, but could directly trace their lineage to Spain.
Creoles
Haiti's name as a French colony.
Saint-Domingue
Simon Bolivar was known as the [Blank] of Latin America
George Washington of Latin America
The present-day name of the country neighboring Haiti
Dominican Republic
These people were at the top of the social hierarchy, holding valuable government and administrative positions.
Peninsulares
This document, written during the French Revolution, influenced the slave revolt on Saint-Domingue
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Name one of the countries (other than Venezuela) Bolivar led to independence from Spain
Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
The basis for the ranking of people in Latin America's hierarchy
Race/Ethnicity
The (no longer appropriate) term for people of mixed European and African heritage.
Mulattos
Toussaint Louverture's nickname
The Black Napoleon or Black George Washington
This is how Bolivar treated the Spanish while leading his revolution.
He offered them the chance to surrender and be spared.
The basis for the ranking of people in France's hierarchy
Social class
These people were ethnically mixed, with European and Indigenous heritage.
Mestizos
The name of the original, indigenous people living on Hispaniola
Taino
One reason why Creoles led the fight for independence.
- Conflict with Peninsulares over being second place to them.
- Frustration with Spanish control over their economy.
- Napoleon's invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal) helped to sever (cut) the connection between Creoles and their ethnic, home country.
The reason the US refused to recognize Haiti.
They were practicing slavery, too. And did not want to empower a black state.