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timeline
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revolution started in haiti
-Toussaint L’Ouverture
-haiti and their french masters fought for their freedom.
-white masters used brutal methods to terrorize them and keep them powerless. so opressed people in the french colony of haiti and rose up against their french masters -
haiti declares independence
General Dessalines declared the colony an independent country -
revolution in mexico started
when the spanish peasants gathered in the church, he issued a call for rebellion against the spanish; hildago’s indian and mestizos followers began the march toward mexico city. this army soon numbered 80,000 men -
independence gained in mexico
when agustin de iturbide defeated jose maria morelos -
Brazil gained independence
eight thousand Brazillians signed a petition asking dom pedro to rule
