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REVOLUTION IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

ENLIGHTENMENT IDEALS, NATIONALISM, AND REVOLUTION

Battle of Carabobo, Venezuelan War for Independence, 1819

COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS, 1750

AGE OF ENLIGHTENED REVOLUTIONS

French salon, Enlightenment Era site of political debates

WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF ENLIGHTENMENT IDEALS IN LATIN AMERICA?

WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF NATIONALISM IN LATIN AMERICA?

WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF REVOLUTIONARY IDEALS IN LATIN AMERICA?

EUROPE AT WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD

Surrender in Madrid (1808) showing Napoleon’s defeat of Spain

THE CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF SAINT-DOMINGUE

The Caribbean with Haiti in red

WAR OF HAITIAN INDEPENDENCE

Battle on Santo Domingo, 1791, painting by January Suchodolski

REBELLION AND THE BIRTH OF HAITI

Haitian Revolutionary General Touissaint L’Ouverture

REVOLUTION IN NEW SPAIN

American portion of Viceroyalty of New Spain, 1819

GRITO DE DOLORES

Statue of Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE

Congress of Chilpancingo signing the Declaration of Independence of Mexico, 1818

THE INDEPENDENT AMERICAS

North and South America, present-day

WARS OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

Crowning of Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, December 1, 1822

DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE

1945 depiction of the Proclamation of Chilean Independence of 1818

LEADERS OF INDEPENDENCE

Simon Bolivar, “El Liberator” of Venezuela

Jose de San Martin, “El Liberator” of Peru

WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF ENLIGHTENMENT IDEALS IN LATIN AMERICA?

WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF NATIONALISM IN LATIN AMERICA?

WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF REVOLUTIONARY IDEALS IN LATIN AMERICA?

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