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UNIVERSIDAD

SAN FRANCISCO DEQUITO

Atlantic History

Final Exam Work

Pal Gross

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11 de Diciembre de

2010Differences between U.S.A independence,

Hispanic America independence, and Brazil

independence.

The most important differences between U.S.A independence andHispanic America independence and Brazil independence are:

U.S.A Independence:

The United States, or also called the thirteen colonies in that time,

was the first modern nation to claim independences and transform in to

a democratic republic in the year 1776. All began with the abuse of

imposed taxes by Great Britain, an important world power in that time,to the thirteen colonies in North America. Colonies people, where really

upset and angry because of the constant abuse of the British taxes and

military violence against the settlers. The rebellion by the thirteen

British colonies in North America from Great Britain was spurred by

several factors, including a number of imposed taxes, repressive acts,

and the lack of American representation in British government. The

colonies tired of being ruled and abused, decide to form a Union or

United States and rise in arms in order to fight back the British and

pursuit their freedom. This infuriated many colonists, and eventuallybecame the spark that ignited the American Revolutionary War. The

Unites States army, allied with the French, and command by George

Washington, fight against the British during many years. Initial fighting

began in 1775 and lasted until October 1781, when the British army,

under the command of General Cornwallis, surrendered in Yorktown,

Virginia. The American colonists subsequently founded a republican


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government grounded in Enlightenment thought. Finally, the war ends

and a new free nation born under the first democratic constitution.

Hispanic America Independence:

Hispanic America or Latin America claims their independence

much later than the USA independence. The Latin American Wars of

Independence were the various revolutions that took place during the

late 18th and early 19th centuries that resulted in the creation of a

number of independent countries in the Latin American region. These

revolutions followed the American and French Revolutions, which hadprofound effects on the Spanish, Portuguese and French colonies in the

Americas. The first nation to claim independence was Haiti, a French

slave colony, was the first to follow the United States to independence

during the Haitian Revolution, which lasted from 1791 to 1804. While in

South America, Spain domain in their colonies was getting weaker

because of the war they had against the French (Napoleon Bonaparte),

so South American colonies tired of the abused, and their pursuit for

freedom to rule themselves as independent nations, took advantage of

the bad moment of Spain, and rise in arms against them. Independence

movements in the northern regions of Spanish South America had an

inauspicious beginning in 1806. The small group of foreign volunteers

that the Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda brought to his

homeland failed to incite the populace to rise against Spanish rule.

Thwarted in his attempt to rebuild a French empire in North America,

Napoleon Bonaparte turned his armies to Europe, invading and

occupying many countries, including Spain and Portugal in 1808. The

Peninsular War, which resulted from this occupation, caused Spanish

Creoles to question their allegiance to the metro pole, stoking

independence movements that culminated in bloody wars ofindependence, which lasted almost two decades. Creoles in the region

wanted an expansion of the free trade that was benefiting their

plantation economy. At the same time, however, they feared that the

removal of Spanish control might bring about a revolution that would

destroy their own power.
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Brazil Independence:

The Brazilian Independence comprised a series of political events

occurred in 18211823, most of which involved disputes between Brazil

and Portugal regarding the call for independence presented by the

Brazilian Kingdom. The war between the Brazilians and Portuguese last

longer from February 1822, with the burst of first skirmishes between

militias, to November 1823, when the last Portuguese garrisons

surrender. In land and naval combats, it had involvement of regular

forces as well as civilian militias of both sides. In their newly created

Army and Navy, the Brazilians beyond forced enlistment, which included

foreign immigrants, also made use of slaves in militias as well as the

resort of release slaves to engage them in army and navy. Fights

between militias took the streets of the main cities of the mentioned

territories in 1822 and in land, despite the arrival of additional forcesfrom Portugal along the year of 1822 but the last quarter; the

Portuguese forces although had neutralized the home born militians, but

to failed to defeat the militias in most of cities as well the guerrilla forces

in the country side and when came 1823, while the Brazilian army had

enlarged replacing its losses of men and supplies; the remaining

Portuguese forces, already then on the defensive, were shortened of

men and means, found themselves compelled to restrict their sphere of

action to resist in some province capitals. In the sea, led by Thomas

Cochrane, the Brazilian navy succeeded to clean the coast from the

Portuguese presence isolating the last Portuguese land troops, beyond

had in the end of that year pursuit across the Atlantic the remaining

naval colonial forces until the littoral of Portugal. Brazilian independence

war last 22 months.

Bibliography:

Revoluitons and Counterrevoluitons: The season ofIrony, 1789-1804.

The Ebb and Flow of Empire, 1804-1830
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