Revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean

Question 1

Read the passage.I declare to you to re-establish slavery would be to attempt the impossible: we have known how to face dangers to obtain our liberty, we shall know how to brave death to maintain it.Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1797

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rather die than go back to being enslaved.

Question 2

Political instability in the emerging Latin American countries was due in part to

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conflicting views on government.

Question 3

CubaHaitithe Dominican Republicthe Bahamas

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Haiti

Question 4

When Napoleon seized the Spanish throne and replaced it with a French king, criollos in Latin America

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believed the people should take control.

Question 5

African enslaved persons outnumbered free people 10 to 1 in Saint Domingue, which led to

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a massive and successful uprising.

Question 6

What was a direct result of the uprising in Haiti?

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All enslaved people on the island were freed by the rebels.

Question 7

Who sparked the independence movement in Mexico?

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criollos and Indigenous people

Question 8

In Spanish Latin America, people who were of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry were called

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mestizos.

Question 9

Look at the picture.

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beginning the Mexican independence movement.

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