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

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
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