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