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1. What factors led to the Latin American revolutions? What major challenges faced the new nations of the Western Hemisphere?

2. Discuss the threats to Mexico sovereignty from foreign powers after independence ?

3. Discuss the connection between the women's rights movement and the abolition of slavery in America?

4. How did immigration patterns change in the nineteenth century and how did these changes affect the Western Hemisphere nations that received immigrants?

Answer 1

• 1.Factors-
• Most of the events that led to the Latin American Revolution were begun because of the Spainish colonization and conquering of the Latin American people.
• These events were:
• Spain setting up colonies in the Americas.
• Creoles and Mestizos grow discontented with the Spanish rule.
• Enlightenment ideas spread to the Americas. This gives the people new ideas and knowledge through scientific study and experimental advancement.
• The French and American Revolutions inspired Latin America by showing that it was possible to overthrow their more powerful and controlling countries.
• Napoleon invaded Spain and replaced its monarch with one of his own bloodline. In Spain’s colonies, elites all over the place declared themselves rulers in absence of the king, creating “juntas” which were supposedly acting in the interests of the king.
• These juntas provided a way for revolutionaries to gain momentum and support, and from 1810 to 1820 the juntas broke away from Spain entirely, igniting bloody wars between loyalists and revolutionaries across the Americas. By the 1850s the Spanish Empire no longer existed.
• The rise of Personalist leaders, resurgence of Native American resistance, and immigration all affected the political environments of North and South America during that time. Young nations like The United States, Argentina, and Brazil found it difficult to manage themselves under their new constitutions. Regional separations and movements for women’s and black rights added to this difficulty, creating new political groups and questioning national identity.
• Perhaps the most significant political change in the 19th century, the regionalization of western states challenged the growth of their respective identities.
• In Spanish America, initiatives like Gran Columbia failed because of debate over economic policy, power struggles, and other interprovincial conflict. The lands of New Spain (1521-1821) were wide and varied, and many of the natives never desired to live under such a flag to begin with. This was illustrated with the Caste War, a string of many battles that were waged between the Maya and the Spanish over rights and land in the Yucatán area of Mexico, starting in 1847.
• Regionalism also affected the United States. The size and composition of states influenced the drafting of the constitution. The smaller states, along the East Coast, feared that their say would be repressed by larger states.
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