Why would you rebel?

Latin American
& Haitian
Revolutions
What are examples of Enlightenment Ideas? What was the relationship like between the colonies and the
Europeans?
Equality Human
Rights colonies are being taken advantage
Freedom Ot
 erica
The successful Am____________________________
n ench
Revolution, the Fr____________________________

ightenment
Revolution, and the Enl____________________________ changed ideas about who should control

ernment
gov____________________________. Ideas of liberty, equ____________________________, and
ality
demo____________________________ rule found their way across the seas to
cratic
Eur____________________________ colonies. In Latin Am____________________________,
erica most of the
opean
nted
population rese____________________________ the domination of European colonial powers. The time

seemed right for the people who lived there to get rid of old colonial masters and gain

trot
con____________________________ of the land.
 Where else have we learned about different people divided by class?

French before reV

What were the effects of having a class system?

Anger with minority

Wlhaving all the plier
 ass
In Latin American colonial society, cl____________________________ dictated people’s place in society

inSolares
and jobs. Pen____________________________, V
those born in Sp____________________________,
g were at

des
the top. Next were Cre____________________________, or Spaniards who had been born in Latin

erica
Am____________________________. Together these two groups controlled

nd wer
la____________________________, wealth, and po____________________________ in the European

xed
colonies. Below them were mestizos. Mestizos had mi____________________________ European and

Indian ancestry. Next were mulattos, with mixed European and African ancestry, and then Africans.

At the bottom were Indians.

If the French and Americans Could fight for independence, what message would that send to others hoping for
rights?
By the late 1700s, colonists in Latin America, already aware of Enli____________________________
ghtenment
olitions
ideas, were electrified by the news of the American and French Rev____________________________.

The success of these revolutions encouraged them to try to gain inde____________________________

pendence
from their European masters. In 1804, a Fr____________________________ colony did just that. Led
erich
au es
by Toussaint L’Ouverture, sl____________________________ helped launch a revolution that would

uit an
eventually end in Ha____________________________ independence.
Toussaint Louverture

● Leader of ___________________________ movement

● He ________________ the slaves and negotiated
for the French colony _____________________ (later
Haiti), to be governed by former slaves as a
French protectorate.
● Son of an educated slave who was taught to
read and write.
● Helped organize slaves in their fight for
________________________.
Simón Bolívar
José de San Martín

● Born in modern day Argentina

● Was crucial in fighting for South
American independence from Spain
● Formerly fought for Spain
Independence movements did not stop there. Most of South America went through wars of

ind___________________________
ependence de
thanks to the brilliance of two cre____________________________

generals. One was Simón Bolívar, a wealthy Venezuelan creole. Simón

Bo____________________________
ti was a writer, fighter, and political thinker. He survived defeats and
var
exile to help win ind____________________________
ependence for Venezuela in 1821. The other great liberator

Sanmartin
was José de ____________________________, an Argentinian. José de San Martín helped win

independence for Argentina in 1816 and Chile in 1818. Bolívar led their combined armies to a great

ni Sh
victory in 1824. This victory gained independence for all the Spa____________________________

colonies.
 Causes of Latin American Independence Movements

1.
ination
European dom____________________________ of Latin America

2. Spread of En____________________________ ideas

lightenment
3. n
American and Fr____________________________
em action
Rev____________________________

4.
ented at
i
People of Latin American res____________________________ colonial rule and soc____________________________
injustices

5. aers
Revolutionary lea____________________________ emerge
What caused the Haitian Revolution?

Latin America French

Toussaint Slaves
L’Ouverture
Haiti
Leader
Napoleon
Independence
What was the main reason the Haitians
rebelled?
What caused the Haitian Revolution?
What were effects of the French Revolution?
Haitian Fill in the Blank

In the early 1800s, colonial peoples in 1. _________________________ fought for independence. The

2._________________________ colony of Saint Domingue was the first Latin American colony to fight for

3._________________________. Almost all of the people who lived in the French colony were

4._________________________ of African origin. In 1791, about 100,000 of them rose in revolt.

5._________________________ _________________________, a former slave, became their

6._________________________. In 1802 7._________________________ sent troops to the island to end the

rebellion. They failed. In 1804, the colony declared its independence as 8. _________________________.