What is the relationship between the French Revolution and Latin American revolutions?
While the French Revolution produced changes within the borders of France, the Latin American Wars of Independence established independent countries throughout large portions of South America, including Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile.
What were the reasons for the similarities and differences between the American Revolution and Latin revolutions of the early 19th century?
George Washington was the leader of America’s war and its first government. In Latin America, leadership was much more diffuse and included priests and several military and political leaders. The revolutions were similar in that they both stemmed from increased taxation and European administration.
How were the North American and Latin American revolutions similar?
The American Revolution and the Latin American Revolutions are similar in that those movements were the result of people wanting freedom, wished to gain independence from the European Monarchies, and that aristocratic class or more educated class were the leaders of those Independence revolutions.
Who won the Latin American revolution?
Spain
Did the Atlantic revolutions fulfill or betray?
Did the Atlantic Revolutions fulfill or betray the goals of those who made them? Consider this question from both short term and long term perspectives. The Latin American revolution did not fulfill the goals of the revolution. Although they gained independence from Spain, the social construct did not change.
How were the Atlantic revolutions connected to one another?
Though each of these revolutions had its own origins, important figures, and results, they were all tied together by three things. First, Enlightenment ideas and ideals inspired all of them. Second, each revolution rejected rule without representation. Finally, they were connected by economic and political networks.
What was a major cause of the American Revolution?
The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make them repay the crown for its defense of them during the French and Indian War (1754–63). Learn about the Boston Tea Party, the colonists’ radical response to a tax on tea.