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The Haitian Revolution
Nearly 500,000 enslaved Africans worked on French Plantations and outnumbered their masters, who used brutal methods to terrorize and keep them powerless. In August slaves revolted against the French and Leading the way was a former enslaved African Toussaint L'Ouverture. -
End Of The Haitian Revolution
After the death of Toussaint in April of 1803, his lieutenant Jean-Jacques Dessalines took up the fight for freedom. General Dessalines declared the colony as an independent country. Becoming the First colony to free itself from European control. -
The Mexican Revolution
In 1810 Padre MIguel Hidalgo rang his bells to issue a call for a rebellion against the spanish. Hidalgo's unruly army numbered 80,000 men to march toward Mexico city. -
The Start of The South American Revolution
Simon Bolivar declared Venezuela's independence from Spain in 1811. Allied with Jose de San Martin who are south into Ecuador. Entering Chile, and Lima -
The End of the Mexican Revoultion
After Hidalgo's defeat the rebels were led by Padre Jose Maria Morelos. After his defeat four years later in 1820 a revolution in Spain; the Mexican creoles feared the loss of the privileges in a Spanish controlled colony they united. Agustin de Iturbide the one who defeated Hidalgo proclaimed independence in 1821. -
Brazil's Indpendence
In 1822, creoles demanded Brazil's independence from Portugal. Eight thousand Brazilians signed a petition asking Dom Pedro to rule. -
A Bloodless Revolution
Dom Pedro agreed to rule, september 7th they officially declared Brazil's Independence. They had won independence in a Bloodless Revolution. -
The End of the South American Revolution
With the help of San Martin, and Bernardo O'Higgins; Simon Bolivar's army was able to gain the independence from Spain of Venezuela, Columbia, Panama, and Ecuador and were united into a country called Gran Colombia.
