Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Latin American Independence Movements

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

9

Overview

This video from Khan Academy is an overview of a series of independence movements in the Americas in the late 1700s and early 1800s which were sparked by the Enlightenment and conflict in Europe. This includes revolutions that will lead to the United States, Haiti, Mexico, Venezuela, Columbia, Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina.  The video can be used to introduce a lesson on comparing revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbeans. The video is 5 minutes and 48 seconds in length.

    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 9 - World History

    SS10.WH.8

    Compare revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.WH.8

    Vocabulary

    • revolutions
    • Latin America
    • Creoles
    • Mestizos
    • plantation
    • Cabildos
    • Indians
    • class system
    • maroons
    • voodoo
    • "Night of Fire"
    • mulattos
    • yellow fever
    • liberator
    • royalist
    • campaign

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The location Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico.
    • Contributing factors in revolutionary movements, including causes, outside and internal influences, political thought, social changes, and any other factors important to a particular revolution. Social and political realities of indigenous populations in Latin American and the Caribbean.
    • Leaders of the Mexican revolutions such as: Miguel Hidalgo, Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Jose Maria Morelos, Santa Anna, Benito Juareze, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata; liberator Simon Bolivar; in Haiti ,Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean Jaques Dessalines, Jose Tomas Boves.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Utilize maps of various types for appropriate purposes.
    • Compare and contrast historical events using a variety of secondary and primary resources.
    • Use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • There were both similarities and differences among revolutions that occurred in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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    Khan Academy
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    Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
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