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Haitian Revolution
The French colony was called Saint Domingue. It was the first Latin and American territory to set its self free from Europeans rule. The main purpose or cause for the Haitian Revolution was slavery in the French colony of St. Domingue. This revolution took place between 1791 through 1804. Haiti was the only country where slave freedom was forced. On 1804, General Dessalines declared the colony a independent country and the first black colony to escape or free themselves from European rule. -
Latin American Wars of Independence (North, Simon Bolivar)
Bolivar was born on July 24th, 1783 and he lived a short but powerful life. He had free six countries, he was a general for a war of extreme violence, a civil war. He gained lots of support from Haiti, but then Bolivar returned to his home and became involved in a number of military battles, eventually able to claim several territories. He was a good general until he died on December 17th, 1830 because he got shot in a battle. -
Romanticism
What Romanticism was is a movement in the arts and literature that began in the start of the 18th century, giving people lots of inspiration, creative thoughts, and a new form of art. The time period this art lasted was from the beginning of the 1800s to somewhere in the middle, so the 1850s. But its not just writing that romanticism is, it also is music, literature, art, and more. Also Romanticism gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early 1800s. -
Latin American Wars of Independence (South, San Martin)
His full name, José de San Martín, was a Argentine soldier and he was a hero considered to many people across the world or in history. He was so unique because he helped lead the revolutions against the Spanish rule in 1812. His plan was to attack the viceroyality of Lima. He was going to do this by crossing Andes of Chile and he was going to sail the sea. He was one of the helpers or main reasons why Spanish power was defeated in South America. -
Mexican War of Independence
This was started by Mexican Spaniards or known as Criollo people. This which ended the rule of Spain in 1821 in the territory of New Spain. In the early 19th century, Napoleon’s prediction of Spain led to the outbreak of revolts all across Spanish America. On the final day of the Mexican War this guy named Juan de O’Donojú signed a treaty called the Treaty of Cordoba. This war lasted 11 years and the final day which was August 24th, 1821, they finally got there independence. -
Brazilian Independence
Brazil was founded in the 1600s by the Portuguese. Since 1808, King Dom Joao VI had been living wealthy in Brazil, that making one of the Kingdoms of the United Kingdom of Portugal. In 1815, he had a son, Dom Pedro, he is a Regent Prince, giving him the law to govern Brazil in the king’s place in the event of hopefully avoiding death. Brazil then got there independence in 1822 by a quote "For my blood, my honour, my God, I swear to give Brazil freedom. Independence or death!” -
Greek Revolution
The Greek War was a successful war of independence by the Greek revolutions, between 1821 and 1832 against the Ottoman Empire. The land of Greece is owned and controlled by the Turks. They attack their wealthy countrymen and the Greeks have to escape. Everyone was scared because the people of the revolution were gravely threatened by the arrival of Egyptian forces. -
German Unification
The series of violent uprisings in European countries where legal attempts at economic and political change and sooner or later it turned to a bad cause that made it unsuccessful. Camillo di Cavour which he was part of the Italian Unification, someone named Otto von Bismarck pushed German unification through "blood and iron." Which meant the people there were very skillful and knew how to do a lot of things like hard work. So his goal was basically to make Prussia and Germany more powerful. -
Italian Unification
The Italian Unification was a political and social movement that made many different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy. The king of Italy at that time was D’Azeglio and he created a new law called the Siccardi Law. The Siccardi Law was banning Christian churches or its clergy. In 1857, the Italian nationalists founded the monarchist or unionist Italian National Society.
