Brazil's road to independence was different from that of its Latin American neighbors in that
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criollos signed a petition and asked the king's son, Don Pedro, to rule.
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When Napoleon seized the Spanish throne and replaced it with a French king, criollos in Latin America
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believed the people should take control.
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Political instability in the emerging Latin American countries was due in part to
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conflicting views on government.
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In Spanish Latin America, people who were of mixed European and Indian ancestry were called
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mestizos.
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Read the passage.
I declare to you to re-establish slavery would be to attempt the impossible: we have known how to face dangers to obtain our liberty, we shall know how to brave death to maintain it. Toussaint L'Ouverture, 1797
The passage shows that L'Ouverture believed that freed enslaved persons would
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rather die than go back to being enslaved.
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What is the name of this man, who led the 1791 revolt in Haiti?
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Toussaint L'Ouverture
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Which best explains why some plantation owners punished enslaved persons?
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to keep them as helpless as possible.
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Look at the chart.
The pie chart shows that the population of enslaved people in Saint Dominique was
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larger than the number of free whites and non-whites combined.
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The Napoleonic Wars in Europe prompted which groups to declare independence in Spanish Latin America?
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criollos
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African enslaved persons outnumbered free people 10 to 1 in Saint-Domingue, which led to
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a massive and successful uprising.
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In Spanish Latin America, people who were of mixed European and Indian ancestry were called
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mestizos.
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Read the passage.
The Africans transplanted to Saint Domingue remain in general indolent and idle, quarrelsome and talkative, and liars, and are addicted to stealing. Always given to the most absurd superstitions, there is nothing which does not frighten them more or less.
— A Civilization That Perished:
The Last Years of White Colonial Rule in Haiti, 1797
The passage shows that the author was most likely someone who was
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in support of slavery
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Brazil's road to independence was different from that of its Latin American neighbors in that
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criollos signed a petition and asked the king's son, Don Pedro, to rule.
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BolÃvar had hoped for a unified state in Latin America, but
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instead Latin America was divided into Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
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Saint Dominique, a French colony in the Caribbean Sea where 100,000 slaves rebelled, became a country called__ .
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Haiti
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Which best explains why some plantation owners punished enslaved persons?
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to keep them as helpless as possible
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The term criollos refers to the people of Latin America who were
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of mixed European and African ancestry.{WRONG}
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The coup d'etats in Latin American left the new governments
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prosperous and divided.
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What was the economy of Saint Dominique dependent upon? Check all that apply.