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Enslaved man that revolted, setting fire to plantation homes and fields of sugarcane.
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Francois Toussaint-Louverture
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Catholic Priest who led the fight against the Spanish Goverment in Mexico, cared deeply for the poverty-stricken Native Americans mestizos in his parish of Dolores , he also to end slavery and improve living conditions in Mexico's poor.
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Miguel Hidalgo
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a creole from Venezuela led many colonies to independance , belived in equality and saw liberty "the only object worth a mans life." devoted his life to freedom for latin americans.in 1810 he started a revolt against the Spaniards in Caracas.
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Simon Bolivar
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led Latin Americans armies over the Andes Mountains and into Chile. achieved independance for Chile in 1818, then set off to free Peru in 1820 and within a year he captured Lima and declared Peru independant
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Jose de San Martin of Argentina
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Brazilian that ruled the empire under a constituion and Brazil became the only independant counrty in S. America to freely choose a constitutional monarchy as its form of Goverment.
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Pedro 1
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List the colonial goods that were of great importance to the mercantilist ecomies of Spain and Portugal
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cash crops such as corn, sugar and cocoa.
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Where did the first successful revolt against European rule in Latin America take place?
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Mexico
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