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- Did the Creoles also care about eliminating discrimination against the Indians (natives), mestizos, and mulattos?
- Who was the great hero of Latin American Independence movements?
- All but two Spanish colonies in the Americas gained independence from Spain between 1806 and 1839. Which two did not gain independence until 1898?
- Did Latin Americans become aware of the Enlightenment ideas and writing that inspired revolts in other areas?
- Did Spain's late eighteenth-century reforms in the colonies increase or decrease racial and ethnic discrimination against non-whites?
- How did the Spanish government, like Great Britain, justify raising taxes on its colonies?
- Did the new nation give women the right to vote?
- Under the restriction of colonial rule, did Latin Americans develop a stronger appreciation for their pre-colonial culture?
- Was slavery legal in the new nation?
- Where was the treaty that negotiated the end of the American Revolution, establishing the independence of Britain's thirteen colonies signed?
- What did the Federalists do to demonstrate their support for individual rights and freedoms, in response to the Anti Federalists' concerns?
- Did the Creoles significantly outnumber the Pensisulares?
- What were the factors that isolated Spain from Latin America in the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries and therefore weakened Spanish control in its Latin American colonies?
- Did these early revolts oppose colonial rule altogether?
- What was the name of Thomas Paine's' book that attacked British colonial rule in the thirteen colonies and argued for independence?
- Although colonists fought against Great Britain for independence, did they adopt many British political principles when creating their new government?
- Was there a birth-based aristocracy in the colonies?
- What other two European countries joined France in allying with the colonists against the British?
- Which two Enlightenment thinkers contributed significantly to eighteenth-century reform movements because of their beliefs in representative governments that protected individual rights and freedoms?
- What did the privileges of middle-class professionals, merchants, and guild masters allow them to do?