Latin American Revolution Dbq

During the 15th and 16th centuries, spain conquered most of americas and was know as the most powerful country in Europe. The empire lasted for 300 years, but that was the end of that when the people of latin america rose up and revolt in the early 1800’s. And this was the beginning of the revolution of Latin. The creoles were the one who led the revolutions in Latin america because the desire of political power, nationalism, and economic conditions.

Political power was a great motivator for the Creoles. Because since they were second highest class then the peninsulares, and had some of the power such as economic, and social influence. But “peninsulares monopolize all administrative position and has power to the government”. On document B, says that “ in 1807 only 12 of 99 judgeships in Latin America were held by creoles.The rest were held by peninsulares.” Even though the Creoles had a
And since the peninsulares has power over all other Latin Americans, that it was a frustration for each social class since they all want to have the same power. But it also especially frustrated the Creoles since they believe in the democratic ideals of fair representation and equality, values that conflicted with the very foundation of the hierarchical spanish colonial system. And this were one of the main things that caused the creoles to revolt in europe during the french revolution. But at the same time the Creoles were motivated by power, and in a way of being greedy and less reflective of enlightenment values of equality. The Creoles main focus was to overthrow the peninsulares so they can gain political representation of themselves, and to deny the other social classes power. And