Key Terms A Key Terms B Potpourri Revolutions Map Skills

This is someone who was born in Latin America and had Spanish parents

What is a criollo?

Prior to the American Revolution, colonists refused to buy British goods.

What is a Boycott?

A person who has certain rights and responsibilities under a particular government

Who is a citizen?

A large group of people who work together for political change.

What is a Political Movement?

This is an overthrow of a ruler or government by a group, which then takes power

What is a coup?

Government exists to protect the rights of the people is an important part of this

What is the Age of Enlightenment?

This military leader gained power after Latin American revolutions. He rarely cared for the well being of his people.

What is a caudillo?

This type of colony relies on the mother country for products and services

What is a dependent colony?

This part of the Constitution is a checklist which protects the people. It is a reason America was successful after its revolution while most Latin American countries struggled.

What is the Bill of Rights?

3 Reasons Latin American countries struggled after gaining their independence

Most European countries were replaced by military leaders known as caudillos who: -Did not plan a government for the people as American colonists did -Did not care about the concern of the people -Were out to get rich for themselves -Were usually overthrown within years, leaving little stability What were?

True/False Spanish colonies had a social structure in which everyone shared basic rights and equality

What is false? Social structure in Spanish colonies was based on Spanish blood.

In 1833, Jamaican slaves rebelled against their owners. True/False Haiti may have influenced this

What is True? In 1804, Toussaint Louverture led Haitian slaves in violent revolution to gain their independence

True/False Violence was needed to gain independence for all Western Hemisphere countries

Both Brazil and Canada gained independence without the use of violence What is false?

True/False Countries which gained independence through violent means did not achieve democratic societies

Although the Revolutionary War was not peaceful, the United States had developed a government based on the Constitution. What is false?

After it gained independence life in Brazil was different for its people than most Latin American countries (Give 3 examples)

-Had political stability -Steady economic growth -Constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech -Respect for civil rights -Elections for members to a parliament with two houses, similar to America’s What was, Brazil’s government:

Name three facts about Haiti’s independence

-It was a violent revolution -It was the first country to gain independence in Latin America -It was unusual in that the slaves did the revolting Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver What were?

Brazil gained its independence, but it was different than most Latin American countries because of these two reasons

What were: A. Brazil had a non-violent revolution? B. Brazil’s mother country was NOT Spain, but Portugal?

Haiti’s revolution was similar to most Latin American revolutions

What were violent revolutions?

The result of the British North American Act of 1867

What was it gave Canada its own central government?

The purpose of the United States Constitution of 1787

What was to set up the framework of the government?

Lines of Latitude north and south of Oahu

What are 21 and 22 degrees north Latitude?

Of Kauai, Molokai, Maui and Oahu, the island located most east

What is Maui?

Exact line of Longitude for the island of Oahu

What is 158 degrees west longitude?

Island west of Oahu: A. Molokai B. Kauai

What is Kauai?

Exact location of Niihau

What is 160 degrees west longitude 22 degrees north latitude?