Latin American Independence Movements

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

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.

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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.

CR Resource Type

Audio/Video

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

Custom

Resource Provider other

Khan Academy

Accessibility

Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
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