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creoles
spanish person born in latin america
penisculares
Spanish/Portugese official who resided temporality in latin America for political and economic gain and returned back to Europe
Toussaint-Louveture
leader of haitan revoulution
capture by french and sent to prision to die
1804 hatitian independance
ended slavery in hatian (sugar colony french)
mestizoes
person who was half latin and half european
miguel hildago
catholic priest inspired by french revolution
rose up against Spanish
speech for racial equality and land redistribution
led army of 1000 indigenous but was defeated
Augustin de Iturbide
set up a new gov out of spanish rule
mexico declared indeoendance from spain in 1821
became a republic in 1822
jose de san martin
member of creole elite
marched towards andes mountains and lost 2/3 of group
spansih defeated of battle of chacoudio 1817
chile declared independace 1818
also helped peru become free
Simon bolivar
member of creole elite
wanted venezulas independance led revolts in new grananda and equador formed grand columbia 1819
monroe doctrine
James Monroe (president) declared the americas off limits for efforts toward colonization and were strongly warned against European invasion of americas, European powers feared the British navy so the didn’t invade.