Chapter 23

•A+ 22-23

•A- 21

•B 18-20

•C 16-17

•D 14-15

•F 0-13

• Week Twenty-Four (February 22-25)• Day 1 Chapter 24 Quiz Discussion Question • Day 2 Human Record / 267-274• Question to consider. How is Imperialism

justified and perceived by different groups. • Week Twenty-Five (February 28- March 4)• Day 1 Chapter 25 Quiz• Day 2 Discuss Comparison • Week Twenty-Six (March 8-11)• Day 1- Chapter 26 Quiz• Day 2- Timed Comparison Essay

Independence in Latin America• Causes

– Enlightenment– Wealthy Creoles resentment– Napoleon

• Spanish South America – Jose San Martin– Simon Bolivar – Help from natives and free blacks– Disunited, politically weak, unstable,

economically poor.

• Mexico– Incredible hardship for natives – Miguel Hidalgo– Jose Morelos – Incredible unstable, violent, and chaotic – Colonel (Emperor) Iturbide– 1823- Republic

• Brazil– King John– Pedro– Very unpopular -Why– Pedro II– 1889- Republic

Problems With New Societies

• Constitutional Experiments– Successful in US not in Latin America – Canada received a great deal of freedom

• Dominion of Canada– Latin America

• Didn’t want to submit army to civilian government

• What to do with the Catholic Church • Personalist Leaders

– Popular military leaders – Lead to dictatorship

– Andrew Jackson & José Antonio Páez

• Regionalism

– Local elites

– Latin America fell

– US Civil War

• Foreign Interventions

– 1800-1900 Foreigners tried to dominate Americas

– Benito Juarez

• French

• Wars between the Americas

– Mexican American War

– Latin American conflicts

Problems Cont. • Native Peoples and the Nation-State

– Leaders of the new countries fought the NA– What to do with them?– Push- Push- Reservation

• Slavery– Many Americans countries were based on

ideals- Freedom– Plantation economies were based on slave

labor – Abolition– By 1888 Slavery was gone

• Immigration– Increased dramatically – They look so different—Eww you really eat

that?– What is a citizen? – Diversity or Assimilation

• Women’s Rights– What is a woman?– Suffrage

• Racism – Stereotypes- Post-slavery problems

Industrialization

• US- Richer

• Everyone else –Poorer – Exported raw products – Increased mining, agriculture, and foresting– Funded by wealthy US and European

corporations

• Environmental Impact – Wealth growth became synonymous with

environmental degradation

• What were the underlying reasons for the struggles for independence in Latin America in the early nineteenth century? Discussion Question

• What impact does industrialization have on the Western Hemisphere? Discussion Question

• Compare and contrast two of the revolutionary movements in Venezuela, Mexico, and Brazil. Comparision

• Problems associated with regionalism were important in shaping Latin American nations as well as the United States. Compare and contrast the significance of regionalism throughout the Americas. Comparison

• Compare the effect of independence and the end of colonialism on Amerindians? Consider former British, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies. Comparison