LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1750-1914
By: Keenan Smith
Christian Flores
Jamie Dickinson
Danielle Grossman
BACKGROUND
American Revolution, 1776
French Revolution and Enlightenment, 1789
Napoleon’s conquest, 1800’s
THE CAUSE AND EFFECT
• Powerful leaders call for independence
• Ideas of Enlightenment spread to the Americans
• Revolutions occurred in South America, North America, and France
• Setting up colonies in the Americas by Spain
• Spain’s power weakens
• Trade expands steadily
• Deaths occurred • Civil War breaks
down• Help shape the
path• Common defense
Pact• Parliamentary
Assembly• Some nations
gained independence
Wars for independenc
e in Latin America
THE RESULT
Trade-• Cash crop economy continued
• Trade not restricted to a mother country
• Spain’s former colonies opened trade with Britain and the United States
• Caudillo borrowed money from Britain and United States to set up industries
Land Sales-• Governments sold lands to raise money
• Most land were owned by a small, elite section of the population
Banana Republics-• United Fruit Company controlled Central America in late 19th and early 20th century