12/1/2010Revolutions in the Caribbean

and Iberian America

Finish Napoleon and Congress of ViennaQuiz

DiscussionHW - read Mexico and South American revolution p. 654-656

Bring Jewels reader also!!

What effect did the American and

French Revolutions have in the rest of the

Americas?

What did Andean Indian protest look like in the 1780’s

Avenida del Sol, Cuzco, PeruNovember 07, 2005 by Juan Bravo

What was unique about the Haitian revolution?

What was different about Brazil’s independence?

Thursday 12/2/2010

Agenda• 3 min - Quiz• 10 min – Correct quiz and review HW reading• 25 min - The Jamaica Letter (Jewels)• 2 min – describe HW – wikipost

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b.

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d. • Enlightenment (Late

1600’s…)• American Revolution

(1776…)• French Revolution

(1789…)• Napoleonic Wars

(1799…) – Spanish Bourbon

family on house arrest from 1807-1814

3. d.• Sept 16, 1810 - El grito de

Independencia (de Dolores)– “My children: a new dispensation

comes to us today. Will you receive it? Will you free yourselves? Will you recover the lands stolen three hundred years ago from your forefathers by the hated Spaniards? We must act at once… Will you defend your religion and your rights as true patriots? Long live our Lady of Guadalupe! Death to bad government! Death to the gachupines! (peninsulares)”

• After a decade of civil war, 1821/2 General Agustin de Iturbide and his loyalists became leaders of Mexico Artist: Ron Embleton

4.a.

Artist: Ricardo Acevedo Bernal

5. c.• Caudillo - political-military leader with

authoritarian power; strong man• “…Rosas as a quintessential caudillo…

Rosas basically ruled on behalf of the large landowners of his own province, and knew the ways of the countryside well—he also achieved … national unity and international standing that strengthened currents of Argentine nationalism for the future. But he ruled by force, alienating not only his liberal opponents, but also fellow caudillos who resented the dominance of Buenos Aires. His dictatorship was brought to an end at the battle of Caseros in 1852…– http://www.library.nd.edu/rarebooks/

exhibits/riverplate/09-biographies/rosas.shtml

Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentine caudillo

Extra Credit

c.

Insights to Bolivar• Attended Napoleon’s coronation at Notre Dame, Paris• Fan of the American and French revolution, and Thomas

Jefferson, Adam Smith, Voltaire, Montesquieu• Respected republics but did not think South American people

were ready for them• Led Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela

to independence• Laid foundations for democratic ideology in S. America• His Bolivian constitution included a life-long presidency– Gran Colombia’s constitution was thus rejected in 1830

• Anti-slavery though accepted the prevailing social and racial theories of his time

• Died from TB in 1830

Caracas

Paris

Buenas Aires

Washington D.C.

Orlando, FL

The Jamaica Letter (p.45)by Simon Bolivar

Pre-reading question:What do you think is harder to do, conquer a free people or release a colony from servitude?

Directions:1. Let’s read together. 2. Annotate. – Circle words you don’t know. – Underline important phrases. – Jot down notes in the columns.

3. Consider, where do you see Napoleon’s influence?

HW• Wikipost - Which question should we write

about?• Default: What would have been Napoleon’s

advice to Bolivar in 1815?

Compare image of Bolivar on Text p. 655 with this…