During the French Revolution Spain fought both as an ally and as an enemy of France. In 1804 a royal decree ordered imperial officials to confiscate certain church assets and place them at the disposal of the crown. In 1808 Napoleon invaded Spain and forced Ferdinand VII to abdicate the Spanish throne in favor of his brother Joseph. In Mexico City they entered an uneasy calm in 1809. Nevertheless Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla 1810 rising activated poor and native Mexicans whose violence scared elites
difference anywhere they go, leaders that only need a balcony to become a president of a country, leaders from the people and for the people, leaders like Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, a man who became five times president of Ecuador because of the people’s decision. The intention of this paper is to analyze the personal history and behaviors of Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, one of the greatest political leader in the history of Ecuador. Throughout the history of Ecuador, there has been a large number of sitting
Hidalgo tried to flee to the north, but eventually was captured and executed. After his death, Hidalgo’s followers appointed other peasant leaders such as José María Morelos y Pavón, Mariano Matamoros, and Vicente Guerrero, who all led armies of native and racially mixed revolutionaries against the Spanish and the Royalists. Jose Maria Morelos kept the revolution alive for another four years, but eventually was killed by in Agustin de Iturbide, a Creole who had joined the Spanish against the revolutionists
from the old fashioned ways of life, to start fresh and bring in new ideas to their people. In South America, their head leadership consisted of so very popular men named Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin. These men were both wealthy, Simon was a Venezuela Creole, which is a Spaniard born in Latin America, and Jose was a great liberator, or a person who sets people free from imprisonment. In some ways these two men worked together to gain their independence but then again not at all. In 1811, Simon
The Mexican War for Independence was the battle for independence from the Spanish government. Such was crucial due to the benefit it brought for the people residing within the country that were being oppressed as well as the fact that without the fight for independence would have brought turmoil between surrounding countries such as the United States. The independence movement provided much more than guaranteed freedoms for the Mexican people, through democratic principle later established, the independence
Kathy Szelag History 241 Due Date: 12/17/15 Final Exam There are many factors that may have contributed to the Independence of Mexico like creole-peninsular hostility, a growing creole self-consciousness, trade restrictions, the Enlightenment, the precedent of the American Revolution, and the revolutionary ideology of the French Revolution. A historian that was the first professor of Latin American studies in the United Kingdom and the founder of the Institute of Latin American Studies at University
The Colonial Era consisted of Europeans making settlements on the North American Continent. All thanks goes out to Christopher Columbus during his voyage because he brought together Europe, Africa and America and the completion of the voyage by Magellan who also played a part in being the first person to circumnavigate around the world. With Columbus and Magellan leading the way, Portugal and Spain were able to become their own colonizing nations. There was an obvious difference when it came to the