Prior to the Latin American countries gaining independence, the Creole elites expressed great displeasure with the crown and readily equated themselves with the American colonists before gaining independence from Britain. With this ideology, many Creole’s became enfranchised with Anglo-European culture and enlightenment, convinced that this culture would solve their perceived problems. The Latin American Creole’s believed in both Charles Darwin and Spencer, to show that the fittest survive through evolution and that those concepts apply to the society they lived in. Spencer reinforced the belief that science, industry and progress were interlinked, and with the evolution of society their nations would bloom.
The French-Indian War of 1754-1763 resulted in political, ideological, and economic alterations within Britain and its American colonies. The French and Indian War, also referred to as The Seven Years War, began with British and French conflicts across the Ohio River Valley, as both nations wanted to claim the land for themselves. The first blood of the French-Indian War began with multiple British failures, including Washington’s dreadful defeat at Fort Necessity and General Braddock’s failed attempt at conquering Fort Duquesne, in which he died along with two-thirds of his army (Document C). The British would, however, gain momentum in 1759 with multiple victories, including their most significant triumph, Quebec.
Allison Yi 10/17/16 10th Grade Global History Period 7 Introduction: Revolutions were significant events in history that dramatically affected the rights of the inhabitants. The Latin American revolution as well as the Haitian revolution were led to gain independence from the colonial power of France, Spain, and Portugal. The Latin American revolution led by Simon Bolivar and the Haitian Revolution have both similarities and differences as they both started due to the want for political, economic and social changes. BP1 Topic Sentence: The Latin American and Haitian revolution were both started due to the want for social change because of the inhumane treatment they were receiving.
Political Power was fairly the most important aspect and most persuasion for the Creoles. Even though the creoles had
Creoles are a result of the interactions between Africans and Europeans. “ [They] first appeared at the trading feitorias or factories” established by the Europeans in Africa. Over time they were able to act as middlemen between Europeans and Africans and even established their own language called “Guinea speech”. Unfortunately, they lost their status as middlemen when they were enslaved. Though the experience of the enslaved varied they all had less control over their lives and many of their skills had become useless and over time they were “de-skilled by the process of enslavement.”
Creoles and poorer classes began to get frustrated with the restrictions that the government had created on the economy. Merchants were forced to sell “products at artificially low prices and buy...at artificially high prices”. (Doc C)Latin Americans were also stripped of basic trading and property rights. When this started to occur, the Creoles began to try to convince the people of America that by gaining independence, they could be ruled by a class that was born in their country. This was one of the main reasons why the Creoles began to help lead the fight for independence.
The Creoles Led the Fight for Latin American Independence for the reasons that Creoles were the most educated, wealthiest, and highest social class in the colonies during that period. The Creoles were the leaders and instigators of those movements many times for the reason of the Creoles being unsatisfied with the Spanish colonial rule. The Creoles were educated and wealthy, most owned large estates and had influence within their local communities. However, the Creoles were excluded from high-ranking political ecclesiastical positions that were reserved for Peninsulares.
In Latin American Revolution before the revolution there were four main social classes; on the bottom there were the slaves and the Indians, then there were the Mulattoes (who were of African and Spanish descent) and the Mestizos (who were of Spanish and Native American descent), then the Creoles (who were of pure Spanish blood, but were born in America), and at the very top there were the Peninsulares (they were of pure Spanish descent and were born in Spain). The Creoles lead the fight against Spain because they wanted higher social status within their own lives, more political control over their own lives, and they were tired of Spain having total control over their economy. The Creoles weren 't allowed to do many things simply because they were born in America and not Spain, it didn’t matter that they were of pure European descent. Creoles were not allowed to hold political positions, only the Peninsulares were able to. For example, in 1807 only 12 of the 199 judgeships were held by Creoles, the rest were held by Peninsulares.
In the 16th Century, when the Spanish took control of parts of the Americas, social classes among the people developed. They were all based off of your ranges of racial mixing and social value. These classes included Spanish, Native Americans, African slaves and mixes between all three races. Three hundred years later, The Creoles, of 100% Spanish blood, but born in the Americas, were the ones who started the revolution for independence from Spain. In this case, they are pretty much fighting against their own kind.
Social classes are what divides people from the way they live or what type of jobs they have. Mesopotamia’s social class consisted of ordinary workers, wealthy merchants, priests, and of course royalty which includes kings. Royalty
The term Creole was first used around 1737 as a description of someone who was of European (generally French or Spanish) or African descent. A Creole was born in the West Indies or Spanish or French America and would have been naturalized there instead of the parents’ home country. Although Creoles and Spaniards were legally equal, in Spanish colonial America Creoles were excluded from high offices in both church and state. They were even discriminated against by the Spanish crown whose policy rewarded its Spanish subjects with honorable positions and excluded Creoles while severely restricting their commercial activity. Enmity grew between the Creoles and Spaniards when in the eighteenth century Spanish immigrants came and succeeded in colonial
In Ancient Rome, social class was based on hierarchy. Hierarchy essentially means that the people with the most power are the leaders of society. In society this ancient society you were either considered patrician or plebeian. The patricians had more freedom and where a higher class then the plebeians. The patricians were made up of the rulers of Rome and their families and the plebeians were basically everyone else that was not part of the ruling families.
These are the ways that were used to organize the society. There was a labor class for the both civilization which included slavery. Slavery in the both was not based on race but rather on the prisoners-of-war who were captured. There was also sometimes whereby children would be sold as slaves in order for the parents to pay off debts. The lower class in the both was comprised of the merchants, the bakers, the brewers and the farmers.
After becoming free, Spain briefly conquered Venezuela, slavery was restored, and trade restrictions were put back in place. Ideas and principles of liberty and equality failed during the Venezuelan revolution due to Spain reconquering the country. The progress of the revolution did not last for long, and no long term process was made. People of Haiti revolted because of slavery and unfair voting. Ninety percent of Haiti’s population was slaves, and this was the main focus of the revolution.
Politics was also left to people of higher class, slaves were regarded as inferior and not able to participate in political
