1. Latin American Peoples Win Independence
Warm-Up Activity:
During the colonial period, most people had few rights or opportunities. Have you ever felt that way? Describe your feelings?

2. Divisions in Spanish Colonial Society

4. Independence for Haiti
Slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) revolted because:
Enslaved Africans outnumbered their masters
White master used brutal methods to terrorize them and keep them powerless

5. Haiti’s Independence
Toussaint L’Ouverture led Africans in a revolt against the French that ended slavery and resulted in the new nation of Haiti.
Toussaint was leader of revolution but imprisoned by the French
General Dessalines took over the rebellion and declared the colony an independent country
First black colony to free itself from European control

6. South American Wars of Independence
Events in Europe lead to revolution in the Spanish colonies:
Motivated by Enlightenment ideals, creoles finally revolted against Spanish colonial rule when Napoleon made his brother, who was not Spanish, king of Spain.

7. Creole Generals: Bolivar & San Martin
Bolivar declared Venezuela’s independence from Spain in 1811
Used surprise tactics to defeat the Spanish in Bogota, Colombia.
San Martin’s Argentina declared its independence in 1816
With the help of Bernando O’Higgins, drove the Spanish out of Chile

8. Creole Generals: Bolivar & San Martin
San Martin and Bolivar met in Ecuador in 1822 – devise plan to drive Spanish forces out of Lima, Peru.
San Martin left his army for Bolivar to command
This unified revolutionary force
Under Bolivar, Peru won its independence
Spanish colonies in Latin America won their freedom!

9. End of Spanish Rule in Mexico
Creoles led revolutionary movements in most Latin American countries
Mexico – Indians and mestizos played the leading role

10. “The Cry of Dolores”
1810 – Miguel Hidalgo, priest who believed in Enlightenment ideals, took first step toward independence in Mexico
The Cry of Dolores – Miguel Hidalgo called upon peasants to rebel against Spanish rule.

11. Mexico’s Independence
Indians and mestizos began the revolution; later, creoles, fearing the loss of privileges under a new liberal regime in Spain, supported independence.
Hidalgo was defeated in 1811
Rebels rallied around Jose Maria Morelos who led the revolution for four years.
1815 – Creole officer, Augustin de Iturbide defeated him
1821 – Augustin de Iturbide proclaimed independence!

13. Central America Central America was part of viceroyalty of New Spain
Declared independence from both Spain and Mexico
United provinces of Central America

14. Brazil Independence occurred without violent upheavals
King John of Portugal in charge then his son, Dom Pedro
Creoles of Brazil demanded independence from Portugal
8,000 signed a petition asking Dom Pedro to grant independence
1822 – Dom Pedro declared Brazil’s independence.

15. Europe Faces Revolutions
How can people make their opinions heard?

16. Review – Congress of Vienna
What did it do?
Restored the balance of power in Europe
Restored Europe’s monarchs to their thrones
Successful because it lasted for 40 years and influenced world politics for the next 100 years.
Long term legacy – foreign control led to calls for revolution.
Nationalism spread in Italy, Germany, Greece, and other areas the Congress had put under foreign control
Result – Nationalistic feelings exploded into REVOLUTIONS!!!!

17. Schools of Political Thought
Conservatives
Property owners and nobility who wanted to maintain the traditional monarchies of Europe.
Liberals
Middle class business leaders and merchants who wanted Parliaments in which educated voters and landowners could vote
Radicals
Wanted dramatic change in order to give power to the people as a whole

18. Nationalism Develops Nationalism – loyalty to one’s nation
Belief that people’s greatest loyalty should not be to a king or an empire
Nation-State – nation with its own independent government
Defended the nation’s territory and way of life, represented the nation to the rest of the world.

19. Revolutions
How did the success of the French Revolution impact Europe?
Fueled nationalist movements and revolutions throughout Europe

20. Greeks Gain Independence
Greeks demanded independence from Ottoman Turks
A combined British, French, and Russian fleet defeated the Ottomans and Greece gained its independence!

21. Nationalists Uprisings
Nationalist groups in Budapest, Prague, and Vienna demanded independence and self-government.
Resulted in the forced resignation of Metternich, triggered liberal uprisings throughout German states, but revolutionaries failure to unite led to the return of conservatism.

22. Radicals Change France
King Charles X of France tries to set up an absolute monarchy in France.
Led to riots that forced him to flee to Britain and led to the replacement by Louis-Philippe, a supporter of liberal reforms.

24. Radicals Change France
Paris mobs overthrow monarchy of Louis-Philippe and establish a republic
Republican government set up, but factions turn to violence, resulting in bloody battles

25. France accepts a strong Ruler
Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (nephew of Napoleon) is elected president of France and later assumes the title of Emperor Napoleon III.
Under this strong ruler, prosperity, peace and stability are restored.

26. Reforms in Russia
In the Crimean War, Czar Nicholas I threatens to take over part of the Ottoman Empire
Russia is defeated by combined forces of France, Great Britain, Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire
Alexander II, begins to modernize Russia

27. Alexander II Alexander II issues the Edict of Emancipation
Serfs were legally free but remained tied to the land through debts

28. Nationalism
Nationalism is the basis of world politics today and has often caused conflicts and wars.

29. Breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Austrian Empire defeated by Prussia in Austro-Prussian War.
To satisfy nationalist spirit, Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria split his empire in half, declaring Austria and Hungary independent states, with himself as the ruler of both – Austro-Hungarian Empire
40 years later, after WWI, Austro-Hungarian Empire split into several separate nation-states.

32. Breakup of the Russian Empire
370 year old empire of the czars in Russia
Policy of Russification – forcing Russian culture on all the ethnic groups in the empire
Nationalist feeling of non-Russian peoples, fueled by the policy of Russification, weakened the empire, which fell as a of World War I and the communist revolution
Last Romanov czar

35. Breakdown of the Ottoman Empire
Conservative Turks, angered by the Ottoman policy of granting equal citizenship to nationalist groups, caused tensions that eventually broke up the empire.

36. Unification of Italy

37. Camillo di Cavour How did Cavour help unify Italy?
Prime Minister of Sardinian king, worked to expand Sardinian empire; through war, alliances, and help of nationalist rebels, succeeded; in the process, unified Italy
Led unification process

38. Giuseppe Garibaldi How did Garibaldi help unify Italy?
Captured Sicily and united the southern areas of Italy he conquered with kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia

39. King Victor Emmanuel How did Emmanuel help unify Italy?
Pulled together northern and southern regions of Italy and took over the Papal states unifying Italy

40. Realpolitik
How did the policy of realpolitik lead to German unification?
“The politics of reality” – tough power politics with no room for idealism.
This policy of tough politics allowed Bismarck to expand Prussia and achieve dominance over Germany

41. Seven Weeks’ War
How did the Seven Weeks’ War lead to German Unification?
The victory over Austria Prussia control over northern Germany.

42. Franco-Prussian War
How did the Franco-Prussian War lead to German unification?
Victory over France motivated southern Germany to accept Prussian leadership.