World History/ Geography

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World History/ Geography

• Latin America Class System

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Class Systems of Latin America

• Essential Question
• What social classes developed in Latin America?
• Criterion A Knowledge
• Demonstrate subject content knowledge and
  understanding through the use of descriptions and
  explanations, supported by relevant facts and
  examples, and may show other ways of knowing.
• Task
• Using the book (Pages 464-465), create a visual
  representation of the class system in place
  throughout the colonies.
• Be sure to include descriptions, explanations,
  and facts surrounding the different classes.

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What should be included

• Peninsulares
• Creoles
• Mestizos
• Native Americans
• Free Blacks
• Slaves
• What role does the Roman Catholic Church play in
  the class system?

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How does all of this lead to independence?

• Example Haiti
• Leader
• Toussaint LOuverture
• Self-educated former slave, organized the rebels
  into a effective fighting force

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Background

• French ruled Haiti provided huge profits for a
  few French families who owned sugar plantations
• Most Natives lived as slaves
• When the French revolution began (in France) the
  white settlers of Haiti began calling for
  independence

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Slaves want freedom

• 1791 slaves rebelled, burned the sugar cane
  fields and killed hundreds of slave owners.
• The uprising set off a 13 year civil war, killing
  many on both sides.

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France wants its sugar back

• When Napoleon took power in France he wanted to
  reclaim the rich sugar plantations, so he sent
  the French army to Haiti.
• LOuverture urged Haitians to fight to the death
  against the invaders.

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LOurverture captured

• He was captured and sent to prison in France
  where he died in 1803.
• Meanwhile many of the French soldiers died of
  yellow fever and the rest fled in fear of the
  disease
• Haiti gains independence in 1804, the first in
  Latin America.

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Implications

• Haitis revolution frightened other Creoles in
  Latin America. They wanted independence but not
  to upset the social order.