CONTENT STATEMENT
The American and French Revolutions influenced Latin American revolutions for independence.
CONTENT ELABORATION
The political, economic, and social events that inspired the American and French Revolutions also inspired revolutions in Latin America. These ideas and events included:
- freedom;
- natural rights;
- self-determination;
- limited government;
- consent of the governed;
- common good; and
- success of the American and French Revolutions.
- However, Latin American revolutions had their own unique causes:
- encomienda;
- míta; and
- chattel slavery.
EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING
Compare how the American and French Revolutions influenced the Latin American revolutions.