The Americas, France. Latin America War

The common reasons for revolution in the Americas, France, and Latin America were to gain independence, slavery, or women’s rights. In North America, the colonists declared their independence from Great Britain and founded a new republic, France abolished the French monarchy and reorganized French society, and Latin America sought independence from Spanish/Portuguese colonial rule America got their independence on July 4th, 1776, with the Continental Congress adopting “The Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America”. It declared “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. In the 1780s, about half of the French’s royal government’s revenue was used to pay off war debts—the French support in the war of American independence, and the other quarter to the French armed forces. In Latin America, Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela peasants were led to revolution by a parish priest, Miguel De Hidalgo (1753-1811),

The French National Assembly discussed the principles of the American Revolution with “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen”. ‘It proclaimed the equality of all men, declared that sovereignty resided in the people, and asserted individuals rights to liberty, property, and security’. Between 1789 and 1791, the National Assembly, taking “liberty, equality, and fraternity” as its goals, abolished the old social order. It changed the role of the church in French society by taking church lands, abolishing the

first estate, defining the clergy as civilians and requiring clergy to take an oath of loyalty to the state.

The Central American Federation formed in 1838 where states of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica split from the Mexican empire. The most recognized person in the South American revolution was (Figueroa, L.2000) Simon Bolivar (1783-1830). The son of a...