American Revolution Dbq

The Independence of Latin America was a process caused by years of injustices, discriminations, and abuse, from the Spanish higher powers upon the citizens of Latin America. Since the beginning the Spanish only used the Americas as a way to gain riches and become greater in power internationally. An example of this would be how the Spanish exploited Brazil and Peru to get silver and gold. But what was the tipping point that caused all of Latin America to revolt? In my paper I will argue that the Enlightenment was the tipping point and the beginning of all the rebellions.
I am disputing that it was not the French Revolution or the Imperial crisis that began the rebellions throughout all of Latin America but it was the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment began in the late 1700s, when Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas were spread from Europe and the United States to Latin America. Educated Latin Americans read works by the Enlightenment writers (Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Renee Descartes, Galileo, Kepler and Leibniz ) and Thomas Jefferson. The success of the American Revolution showed that foreign rule could be thrown off. The French Revolution showed that the people could overthrow an unjust monarch. The French revolution proved that independence …show more content…
The Haitian revolution transpired when a man named Toussaint L'Ouverture. Toussaint learned to speak both French and his native African language, and learned to read. In other words L'Ouverture was enlightened, his intelligence and military skills earned him the place as a leader of the revolution. Haiti became France's wealthiest overseas colony, because of its production of sugar, coffee, indigo, and cotton generated by a huge enslaved labor force. The slaves were tired of being used and mistreated and in 1791 they revolt. By 1798 the Haitian have won their freedom. The revolt was a marvelous success because people came to together to fight for freedom and