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LESSON 5.1 | REVOLUTION AND REFORM

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LESSON 5.1.8 | WATCH | Key Ideas - Factual

Use these questions and prompts at the appropriate stopping points to check in with student and ensure they are getting the key concepts covered in the video.

1. In Latin American society, what three institutions exercised control over the populations?

2. What is transculturation and why is it significant?

3. By 1800, about how many people in Latin America were of multiracial heritage?

4. Why, in 1807, did the entire Portuguese royal family flee to Brazil?

5. Who is Prince Pedro and how did he influence Brazil's history?

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6. What two priests led revolts in Mexico?

7. Through what methods did Simón Bolívar unite Latin Americans to rise up against Spain?

8. With a few exceptions in the Caribbean and South America, by what year was almost

the entire western hemisphere free of European rule? NAME

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LESSON 5.1.8 | WATCH | Conceptual Thinking

Answer the following question to make connections across different concepts and think more critically about the information presented in the video.

1. Consider the following quote by Francisco de Miranda with regard to Latin American revolutions:

"We have before our eyes two great examples, the American and the French Revolutions. Let us prudently imitate the first and carefully shun the second."

Source: Miranda to Gual. 31 December 1799. Archivo del General Miranda (24 vols., Caracas, 1929-50), XV, 404. PDF.

What do you think he meant by this? Elaborate in your reflection.