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Latin America By : Brittany, Colleen, Jackie, and Laura
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Latin American Countries
Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Columbia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecaudor Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela
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Argentina Argentina fought for their independence from 1810 to 1818.
The country was led by Manuel Belgrano and Jose de San Martin. A group met in San Miguel de Tucuman and declared their full independence from Spain on July 9, 1816.
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Bolivia The struggle to gain independence from Spain began in 1809.
After 16 years, Bolivia’s republic declared independence on August 6, 1825. Simon Bolivar led them to independence.
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Brazil Brazil was ruled by Portugal until their independence.
They gained their independence in 1824 but have formally been a republic since 1889.
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Chile Jose de San Martin led Chile to their independence.
They gained their independence from Spain on February 12, 1818 under O’Higgins’ lead.
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Colombia Colombia declared independence from Spain July 20, 1810 with Simon Bolivar as the first president. Their independence was recognized August 7, 1819 when Santander was president.
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Costa Rica Costa Rica joined with other provinces in 1821 to declare their independence from Spain. Costa Rica was a state in the Federal Republic of Central America from 1823 to 1839. Although in 1838, they claimed themselves a sovereign.
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Cuba Cuba declared independence from Spain on October 10, 1868.
Although, under the Treaty of Paris in 1898, Spain had lost Cuba to the United States. Cuba gained their formal independence on May 20, 1902.
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Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic declared their independence from Haiti on February 27,1844.
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Ecuador Ecuador gained their independence from Spain on August 10, 1822. They joined Simon Bolivar’s Republic of Gran Columbia to become a republic in 1830.
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El Salvador El Salvador gained their independence from Spain on September 15, 1821.
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Guatemala Guatemala declared it’s independence from Spain on September 15, 1821.
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Haiti Haiti declared their independence from France on January 1, 1804.
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Honduras Honduras was granted independence from Spain on September 15, 1821.
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Mexico Priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla declared independence from Spain on September 16, 1810.
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Nicaragua Nicaragua joined the Mexican Empire and later gained independence as a United Province of Central America on September 15, 1821.
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Panama Panama gained their independence from Spain on September 28, 1821. They gained their independence from Columbia on November 3, 1903.
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Paraguay Paraguay declared independence from Spain on May 14, 1811.
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Peru Peru gained their independence from Spain on July 18, 1821 with great thanks to Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar.
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Uruguay The Thirty-Three Orientals ,that were led by Juan Antonio Lavalleja, declared independence from Brazil on August 25, 1825.
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Venezuela Francisco de Miranda declared independence from Spain on July 5, 1811.
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Latin American Revolutions
Haiti( ) Ecuador( ) Bolivia( ) Argentina( ) Chile( ) Colombia( ) México( ) Paraguay(1811) Venezuela( ) Perú(1821) Brazil(1822)
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Haiti Revolution The gens de couleur was a group
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Bibliography "Latin American revolutions." Home. 23 Apr < "Latinam." Honolulu Community College. 23 Apr < McDougal Littell world history patterns of interaction. Evanston, Ill: McDougal Littell, 1999.
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