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Homework #18

3. The Catholic Church was greatly involved in the Spanish and Portugese colonies. Church missionaries tried to convert Indians to Christianity and took an active part in fighting for their governmental rights.

4.

Leader	Role in independence movement
Toussaint L’ouverture	Freed slave who led the Mulattoes to victory and won control of an island.
Miguel Hidalgo	A priest who united Indian peasants to revolt against Spanish peninsulars and creoles.
Simon Bolivar	Spurred on the rebel movement, claiming that the hatred of the peninsulars is larger than the ocean between Latin America and Spain.
Jose de San Martin	Crossed the Andes Mountains into Chile with his army and was able to defeat the Spanish there in 1818 with the help of the Chileans.

5. Britain’s reaction to Latin America’s Independce was quite positive. They wished to establish trade with Latin America and wished to gain them as allies against European powers. For these reasons, they provided them with some weapons.

6. Latin America was very difficult to unite due to the large distances between countries, as well as seas and oceans separating them. When Simon Bolivar tried to unite Latin America by calling a congress in Panama, only 4 out of 17 nations had showed up.

7. Imperialism in Latin America differed from African and Asian Imperialism in that due to the United States’ Monroe Doctrine and the British navy’s commercial policy, independent countries could not once again become colonies. Instead of land imperialism, there was economic imperialism.

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9. The U.S. had intervened in Latin American disputes, particularly with Britain, because the U.S. had wished to gain support in the Western Hemisphere. Since the U.S. was an industrial country, it’s main opponent was Britain, and it had sought to uproot any support Britain had in the Western Hemisphere.
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