Latin American Revolutions
Reading Guide

Students should complete this guide on a separate sheet of paper that will be submitted upon Mr. Neale’s return on Wednesday. The relevant vocabulary and concepts are all from pages 644-65s3 of Voyages.

Vocabulary. Please define all of the following terms. While definitions can be found in the text, students should also include a few words about the “historical relevance” of each term in their own words.

1. Gens de Couleur 2. Boukman 3. Toussiant L’Ouverture 4. Simon Bolivar 5. Junta 6. Gran Colombia 7. Jose de San Martin 8. Miguel de Hidalgo y Costilla 9. Grito de Dolores 10. Pedro I of Brazil

Thematic Questions. These questions refer to examples in the reading of past historical themes that we have studied. Most of these questions can be answered in no more than two sentences.

1. What was voudun, why was it useful to the Haitian rebels, and how is it an example of a common social phenomenon that we have studied in the past?

2. How did the stages of the Haitian Revolution reflect a similar pattern when compared to the first two stages of the French Revolution?

3. What was the role of disease in the Haitian Revolution? How is this different than the role of disease in past conflicts such as the Spanish conquest of Mexico?

4. How did the conflict between criollo juntas and penninsulares in the Spanish new world demonstrate a similar the conflict as the dynamic between the French bourgeoisie and the French nobility?

5. Besides the military challenge of defeating the Spanish, what was the biggest challenge for Bolivar in creating a united Venezuela?

6. Why did Bolivar prefer a strong central government for newly independent South American states?

7. What were the differences between the Mexican rebellion led by Miguel de Hidalgo y Costilla and the Mexican revolution that was ultimately successful?