1. Do Now-What is the Message? HW: Create a one page biography of one of the following leaders. 1.Simon Bolivar 2.Jose de San Martin 3.Toussaint L’Ouveture 4.Father Hidalgo Aim: How did Mexico and Haiti achieve their independence and what were their results?

2. Toussaint L’Ouveture Leads a Revolution in Haiti (1804)

3. Latin American States After the Revolutions

5. Effects of Latin America Revolutions No Unity among new nations Brazil freed from Portugal; royal fled to Portugal Many new nations formed Increased poverty Devestation from War; loss of trade Many govt officials left S. America leaving the power to the Caudillos who took away human rights

6. Additional Problems 3 Feuds among leaders. 3 Geographic barriers. 3 The social hierarchy continued from the past. 3 Conservatives favored the old social order. 3 Liberals wanted land reform. 3 Dependence on foreign nations for capital and for economic investments.

7. Mexican Revolutionaries Emiliano Zapata Francisco I Madero Venustiano Carranza Porfirio Diaz Pancho Villa

8. The Mexican Revolution  Victoriano Huerta seizes control of Mexico and puts Madero in prison where he was murdered.  Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, and Alvaro Obregon fought against Huerta.  The U.S. also got involved by occupying Veracruz and Huerta fled the country.  Eventually Carranza would gain power in Mexico.