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latin american social order
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peninsulares
creoles mestizos mulattoes indians |
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peninsulares
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born in spain or portugal, leaders(top)
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creoles
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born in latin america, but family is from spain or portugal. aristocrats who can hold gvt. positions. second class
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mestizos
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mixed with latin american or african american ancestry, working class. (bottom)
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mulattoes
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african and white ancestry, working class(bottom)
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indians
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natives, NO mixed cultures. WAY WAY BOTTOM!
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boukman
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african bhudu priest who called for haitian revolution because of the horrible treatment by French landowners
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L'Ouverture
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"the guy" for haitan independence, former slave, led over 100,000 slaves in revolt and moved into spanish santo domingo and freed slaves over 7 years
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dessalines
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picked up when l'ouverture was sent to jail, won Haiti's independence from France
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hidalgo
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led fight against spanish for democratic reform, said mexico was made up of "those who have everything and those who have nothing", and led El Grito de Delores(freedom march)
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morelos
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took over after hidalgo was executed, and fighting and bloodshed continued but nothing was really major.
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iturbide
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defeated morelos, claimed mexican independence, which led to other countries to declaring their independence. Under his rule, the mestizos proclaimed a republic
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bolivar
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"george washington of venezuela", influenced other countries to revolt, "he who serves a revolution ploughs the sea", said america was ungovernable because of spain, watched constitutions slowly fall apart but had no plan, and he fell into a dictatorship which goes against what he believed before(democracy) and he didn't want to become a dictator, but it was the easiest thing to do. over the course of 20 years he led many diferent countries to succesful independence.
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3 similarities between the haitian and mexican revolutions
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both leaders didn't get to see their country win their independence, both revolutions were started by religious leaders, and both countries went about their change violently.
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