History Latin America quiz

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.