1. Name at least 4 countries who had colonies in the Caribbean or South America.

2. Which labor system took place in Colonial South America?

3. In which century did most Latin American revolutions occur?

4. What caused revolutions in Latin America?

5. Who was at the very top of the Colonial South American social pyramid/hierarchy?

6. Who is the county of Bolivia named after? Who was he? What did he do?

7. What country-controlled Haiti? What is significant about the Haitian Revolution?

8. What prevented several Latin American countries in uniting after they won/earned their independence?

9. Spain & Portugal were at war with who/which country during this time? Did being at war help or hurt them keep control of their colonies in Latin America? Why?

10. In Mexico, who started the rebellion against Spain? In which year did Mexico declare their independence?

1. the following former British Caribbean island colonies achieved independence in their own right; Jamaica (1962), Trinidad & Tobago (1962), Barbados (1966), Bahamas (1973), Grenada (1974), Dominica (1978), St. Lucia (1979), St. Vincent (1979), Antigua & Barbuda (1981), St. Kitts & Nevis (1983).

2. How did labor systems develop in the colonial Americas? There was a need for labor force in the New World to work the tobacco and sugar cane plantations. Initially, indentured servants were sent to the New World. ... As a greater need for labor arose, slaves also were forced to migrate from Africa to the New World.

3.The Latin American Wars of Independence were the various revolutions that took place during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and resulted in the creation of a number of independent countries in Latin America.

4. Most of the events that led to the Latin American Revolution were begun because of the Spainish colonization and conquering of the Latin American people. ... Spain setting up colonies in the Americas. Creoles and Mestizos grow discontented with the Spanish rule. Enlightenment ideas spread to the Americas.

5.The highest social group in the Latin America social hierarchy was of Peninsulares. These were people who were born in Spain not in Latin America. They were considered of true blood. This social class was also termed as Spaniards

6.Bolivia is named after Simón Bolívar, a Venezuelan leader in the Spanish American wars of independence.

7.The Haitian Revolution was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Dominique, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolt began on 22 August 1791, and ended in 1804 with the former colony's independence

8.Independence from Spain came suddenly for most of Latin America. Between 1810 and 1825, most of Spain's former colonies had declared and won independence and had divided up into republics. ... Napoleon's invasion of Spain (1807-1808) provided the spark the rebels needed.

9. with the British because the colonists had excluded slave rights from the Declaration of Independence and the Paris Peace Treaty. ... The British guaranteed African-American slaves that they would be liberated if they fought on the side of the British during the Revolution

10. On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launched the Mexican War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Delores.” The revolutionary tract called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexico, redistribution of land, and racial equality.

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years