Unpacked Content
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.
Vocabulary
- revolutions
- Latin America
- Creoles
- Mestizos
- plantation
- Cabildos
- Indians
- class system
- maroons
- voodoo
- "Night of Fire"
- mulattos
- yellow fever
- liberator
- royalist
- campaign
