Name:________________________
Latin American Revolutions Web Quest
Using the following link, please complete the webquest to help you understand the revolutions that took place in
Latin America during the 19th
​​century. Follow ​
the links​
below in order by clicking on the titles on the left side of the
webpage that correlates with the topic. Open up the documents, but then please close them when you are done.
You also have the links that you need below just as they are on the website. Also, you will have to answer “Thinking
questions” which are higher level prompts that force you to think beyond just what you have read. Have fun! Learn
lots!
Webquest site: ​
https://sites.google.com/site/latinamerrevswebquest/home
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Introduction
1. Summarize the introduction in 3 sentences below.
Haitian Revolution
1. Who was Toussaint L'Ouverture?
1. What did he accomplish?
1. How was he betrayed and what happened to him? ​
http://www.historywiz.com/toussaint.htm
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1. Haiti became the world's first ​
.
2. What were some problems the new nation faced after its founding?
3. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field%28DOCID+ht0019%29
1. Thinking question: Was this revolution more politically or socially based? Explain.
Causes of the Revolution
1. Explain the social hierarchy in Latin America before Revolution. Include and describe each of the groups and
their respective powers or roles. How could this system alone lead to Revolution? What Actions taken by
Napoleon inflamed this situation and why?
2. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=868&HistoryID=aa87&gtrack=pthc#869
1. Go to page 283-284 in your textbook, or use your binder notes to complete the following questions.
a. Draw the social class pyramid of Latin America
b.
Of the Europeans, which group—peninsular or creoles—probably made up a larger percentage?
1. Identify 4 additional causes of the Latin American Revolutions.
(​
http://www.eastchester.k12.ny.us/schools/hs/teachers/reagan/LatinAmericanIndependenceMovements.ht
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)
Revolution Begins!
1. Describe how Napoleon's invasion and conquest of Spain in the Peninsular War of 1808 triggered the
Revolutions in Latin America. (3rd Paragraph)
2. http://www.trincoll.edu/classes/hist300/group3/latin.htm
Libertadores in South America
1. Pick 2 characteristics or experiences of Simon Bolivar that made him a good leader and list them and tell me
why you picked them.
1. Why is Simon Bolivar called the George Washington of South America?
2. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11917&pt=Simon%20Bolivar
1. How did Simon Bolivar and Jose San Martin Work together to achieve Independence in South America?
2. http://www.unique-southamerica-travel-experience.com/simon-bolivar.html
Revolutions throughout South America
Mexican war of Independence 1810
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mexican-war-of-independence-begins
1. Who was the “father of Mexican Independence”?
1. Who was he fighting against?
1. What were the major causes of this revolution?
1. Ironically, it was the _____________________--made up of Mexicans of Spanish descent and other
conservatives--who ultimately brought about independence. In 1820,
_________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________ In response, Mexican conservatives called
for independence as a means of maintaining their _________________________ in Mexican society.
1. In early 1821, Agustín de Iturbide, the leader of the Royalist forces, negotiated the Plan of Iguala with Vicente
Guerrero. Under the plan:
● Mexican government :
● Catholic Church:
● Mexicans of Spanish desent:
● Mexicans of mixed or pure native blood:
1. What happened to the government in 1823?
1. Thinking question: Was this revolution more politically or socially based? Explain.
Effects of the Revolution
1. Who were the ​
caudillos​
and what type of government did the set up for the new countries of Latin America?
2. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=856&HistoryID=aa87&gtrack=pthc
1. What was the ​
Monroe Doctrine​
and how it shows the U.S. "controlling" Latin America? (First Paragraph)
2. http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/usa/mondoc.html
Land sales -​
After independence was achieved governments sold off land to raise money. The only people able
to buy the land were the creoles or the upper class that now existed because most of the peninsular were gone.
This meant that most of the land was once again owned by a small, elite section of the population (the Creoles)
Trade -​
After Independence, the cash crop economy that had existed continued, but now trade was not
restricted to a mother country, and Spain's former colonies opened trade with Britain and the United States. To
build up their governments, caudillo's borrowed money from the U.S. and Britain to set up industries. When the
countries were not able to pay back their loans, the lender countries moved in and took over industries in Latin
America.