Haitian Revolution 1791 May French Assembly gave full

Haitian Revolution 1791 May French Assembly gave full political rights to mulattos and free blacks. September White planters in Saint Domingue objected to granting citizenship to free blacks -> Violence erupted!

Haitian Revolution 1791 August • Boukman and Cecile Fatiman led a vodou ceremony. • This ceremony ignited a slave revolt, known as the Boukman Rebellion which sparked the Haitian Revolution

Haitian Revolution 1802 • Napoleon sends expedition led by Leclerc to reclaim Haiti

Haitian Revolution 1804 • Haiti declared independent • Saint- Domingue became the Republic of Haiti

Haitian Revolution 1805 • Dessalines signed the Haitian Constitution

18101820 • Mexican Revolution • Creoles wanted to extend their power, mainly to assert their power over the Peninsulares. Escape the heavy hand of the Spanish government in implementing high taxes and new government reforms Attempt to unite all types of people - except the Peninsulares - in Mexico to create a non-monarch government • •

• 1810 September Mexican Revolution • Father Hidalgo gives a speech to the crowd about why Mexico should seek independence from Spain, and why they need racial equality and other reforms Spain would not give them

• 1811 January Mexican Revolution Miguel Hidalgo is executed, inspires fellow priests Morelos y Pavón to continue revolution, who was later killed

Venezuela Revolution 18111823 • • • To abolish the restrictive mercantilism laws by the monarch To revolt against the French acquisition of the crown by Joseph Bonaparte To unite the factions created by the power vacuum caused by the dissolution of the Spanish monarch

1811 July • Venezuelan Revolution Venezuela follows Simon Bolivar’s speech in seeking to lead American independence and declares independence

1819 August • Venezuelan Revolution General Simon Bolivar defeats royalist forces in the Battle of Boyacá

1821 June • Venezuelan Revolution • Spain recognizes Venezuela's independence after Simon Bolivar defeats Spanish troops at Carabobo

• 1825 August Mexican Revolution Agustin de Iturbide’s previous military victories leads to the signing of the Treaty of Cordoba , proclaiming Mexican Independence