Latin American Independence

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Effect of Napoleon's invasion of Spain on Latin America:

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Latin American leaders saw Spain’s weakness as an opportunity to demand independence.

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Napoleon’s men surrendered to Haitian forces due to illness.

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French soldiers were sick and dying of yellow fever.

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Spain's new constitution influenced the Mexican independence fight.

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Iturbide joined the independence struggle to avoid liberal reforms.

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Bolívar and other creoles admired the American and French Revolutions because they valued Enlightenment ideals.

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Enlightenment ideals of freedom and individual rights.

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Social structure's role in Latin American discontent?

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Inequality among the classes.

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Leader of the Mexican independence movement

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Miguel Hidalgo

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Leader of South American independence from Spain

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Simon Bolívar