LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1750-1914

By: Keenan Smith

Christian Flores

Jamie Dickinson

Danielle Grossman

BACKGROUND

American Revolution, 1776

French Revolution and Enlightenment, 1789

Napoleon’s conquest, 1800’s

THE CAUSE AND EFFECT

• Powerful leaders call for independence

• Ideas of Enlightenment spread to the Americans

• Revolutions occurred in South America, North America, and France

• Setting up colonies in the Americas by Spain

• Spain’s power weakens

• Trade expands steadily

• Deaths occurred • Civil War breaks

down• Help shape the

path• Common defense

Pact• Parliamentary

Assembly• Some nations

gained independence

Wars for independenc

e in Latin America

THE RESULT

Trade-• Cash crop economy continued

• Trade not restricted to a mother country

• Spain’s former colonies opened trade with Britain and the United States

• Caudillo borrowed money from Britain and United States to set up industries

Land Sales-• Governments sold lands to raise money

• Most land were owned by a small, elite section of the population

Banana Republics-• United Fruit Company controlled Central America in late 19th and early 20th century