America 's Successful Fight For Independence

With other Latin American uprisings occurring Simon Bolivar led the South American independence. Bolivar was a wealthy Creole born in Venezuela but educated in Spain. Influenced by Enlightenment ideas, Bolivar called for independence for all South Americans. He gained firm control of his native Venezuela in 1819. His armies then turned toward Columbia and Ecuador. In the south Jose de San Martin rallied Argentinean forces against Spain. Bolivar and San Martin met in Peru, which became independent along with Upper Peru (Bolivia) in 1824. Although Bolivar was unsuccessful in uniting South Americans into a single nation, he is known as the continent's "liberator."

This exposure to new ideas played a crucially important role in the independence movement for Latin America, in that Simón used these ideas he was taught to influence the people of his country. Without Simón Bolívar’s avocation of these enlightment ideas to the people of Latin America, independence for these states may not have been possible. Since Simón Bolívar could be seen as responsible of the one advocating how important it is for citizens to fight for their rights and freedoms, and these ideas where the reason that ignited the movement towards independence. During the nineteenth century, many people needed some kind of guidance about how they should act and think in regards to being inferior to Spanish rule that had a hold on their country like Latin America experienced throughout Spanish colonial rule. Simón Bolívar and his enlightment ideas were just what the citizens needed in leading them towards independence, since it seemed like they were lost without his guidance. Perhaps Simón Bolívar was just the right intellectual at the right time, since it seemed that people during this time needed someone to guide or speak for them, and that they ultimately couldn’t think or act for themselves so Simón guided them. It was said that Simón Bolívar was considered an intellectual and that people followed his ideas and visions because his campaigns were so

Did you know that Venezuela was one of the first colonies to gain their independence from Spain? At the time Venezuela was a Spanish ruled colony and the people of Venezuela felt that their government was ruling their colony terribly (Adelblue). The people were led by Simon Bolivar, whose nickname was “The Liberator” since he liberated Venezuela and worked with San Martin to liberate most of Northern South America (Adelblue). Venezuela declared their independence in 1810 and finally gained their independence after the Battle of Carabobo in 1821 (Minster). Three symbolic elements of the Venezuelan revolution are used to portray Simon Bolivar, the speech Simon gave to the Second National Congress in 1819 to encourage the type of government he had in mind, and the high taxation that was the main cause of the revolution (Ellis and Esler 705).

The “Bolivarian revolution” revolves around the rise of the leftest movement which started with Hugo Chavez, and soon many other leaders rose to the occasion. The sole purpose of this movement was to help Latin America get rid of dictators and reestablish under Simon Bolivar's ideals of making Latin America not a colony but a nation for the people residing in it. Now that Chavez is dead, I believe that he was able to complete Bolivar's conquest of freeing Latin America. Now that Chavez has passed away, he has left both good and bad implications, but I believe its more good than bad. “The real opposition to Chavez is from the United States which was so angry at the way that he built up a credible alternative to the U.S. idea of free trade with

Simon Bolivar, who had a reputation of being a liberator, took center stage. The common folk began to trust his words, as he talked about fighting for the resources that were theirs, ideals taken directly from the American Revolution itself. Also with the power struggle created by the Napoleonic wars, uprisings began. The most prominent of this movement was the uprising in Chuquisaca in 1809, which led to the formation of the Government Juntas. This group focused on taking the power from the Spanish and giving it to the people. Seeing the movement in Bolivia take shape, Latin Nations such as Peru began to provide military support to Bolivian liberators. Surprisingly, America didn’t live up to its reputation, having no negative impact on this revolution. Normally, America had been notorious for backing up the dictators or colonial powers and suppressing the Latin liberators. All in all, the combination of a power struggle brought upon by foreign wars, introduction of revolutionary independence ideals, proper leadership, and foreign aid, the Bolivian revolution was successful in liberating the nation from Spanish Colonial power after 16 years of conflict.

Many people are aware of the different aspects of the American Revolution and the war of Independence, especially consisting of the people directly involved within the Americas. Of course the people of the colonies were involved because they were the main participant in the war and the British were involved because that is who the colonies were fighting to gain independence from. The Indians were involved in a minor way, mainly on the British side. The African Americans also played a part in helping the Americans. The French also played a role among the side of the Americans. As these many different types of people participated in the revolution directly there was also a ripple effect of events that followed the American war for independence. One part of the American Revolution that is not discussed quite as much is this sequence of events that occurred after the war. The events and the partaking’s of the war for independence, along with the reasons behind the war and the outcome, spurred other places to take similar action, specifically in the Atlantic World.

They argued that the Spanish had colonized the territories and therefore had the authority to rule the colonies however they pleased (“Simón Bolívar.” UXL Biographies). Even after Bolivar had liberated slaves across the continent, “constant revolts flared up in the republics against unity” (“Simón Bolívar.” UXL Biographies). Many refused to see Bolivar’s vision simply because they had gotten used to inherently being superior to others.

When the Latin American revolution first started Bolivar was anything but the person people would think of to join the fight. He was an educated landowner, and had no experience when it came to leading people to war, so using all his knowledge he possessed he recruited someone he deemed fit to fight for the cause, General Miranda, being known for his fights in other revolutions. However, after he was betrayed by Miranda he was forced into this role of General, having no experience for leading men other than his eloquent use of words that made him capable of persuaded the most reluctant man into dying for a cause. He was filled with ideas, but the ones that took to the heart of the people the most were equality and liberty. Even though he was fed with a silver spoon as a child, he believed that everyone

This was an intellectual study of our American Independence which had a lot of defying moments that define the meaning of perseverance. For example, George Washington believed in an American that  was free and independent from the ruling of the British stood and he stood against those that opposed his dream. The defining moment from this story is during the War of Independence their was time that George Washington and his Army were defeated however he never gave up on his dream which illustrated a prime example of the meaning perseverance. Furthermore after America separated itself from the British we started to make trend of the meaning of the Land of the Free under God's nations and that is what impressed me from everything that I

Next, leading a small army, he cleared the Magdalena River of enemies, then in February of 1813, he took the Villa de Cucuta and the liberation of Venezuela began in May. However, in May of 1815, Bolivar resigned his command to prevent the outbreak of a civil war due to the authority change and political struggles in Caracas.

Revolts and revolutions formed in throughout Latin America. In the lecture “Patterns of Colonial Revolts” Professor Villa-Flores stated, “(Colonization) No way to control them because of the crown not having resources to stop the violence. No professional army.” Violence broke out throughout Spanish America due to oppression based on race but also economic inequalities. While Brazil shared similar issues politically formed an empire while Spanish America completely changed their political system. Countries like Venezuela had one main leader Simon Bolivar who lead independence in multiple countries. Cudillismo became the dominate way of Spanish American nations to become independent. Cudillismo called for strong leaders rise up both militarily but also politically. In the film shown on November 29 presented how Cudillismo took hold in multiple counties like in Argentina José de San Martín and in Mexico Benito Juárez which brought radical change in their nations. In Spanish America many battles were fought for complete independence of the nations. Brazil on the other hand had little violence compared to Spanish America and remained with the shift power due to European struggles leading to independence to happen

Before the conference was even planned, San Martin wrote to Bolivar, stating “that the two of them must join forces if the struggle for independence was to succeed.” (Simon Bolivar and Sam Martin) After Bolivar had agreed happily, The meeting was scheduled, and the two of them had failed to meet eyes and agree on how they wanted to liberate Peru. The flamboyant and self-assertive Bolívar stood in sharp contrast to the reflective and self-effacing San Martín. Bolívar wished to accomplish the liberation of Peru himself in spite of San Martín’s previous efforts there, and as a republican, he rejected San Martín’s contention that the disruptive political factions in Peru would be best contained for the national good by a monarch. There isn’t a record of the Guayaquil conversations, except for a few details that were given in subsequent correspondence between the two men. Apparently, San Martín offered to serve under Bolívar’s command, but Bolívar seemed to be unwilling to share the task of liberation.The result was that San Martín retired from active service in the wars of liberation and from the political imbroglio in Peru, and Bolívar’s forces delivered the final blow to the Spanish colonial regime in South America at the Battle of Ayacucho two years later. What is still unknown from this event is why San Martin had left so

Throughout the course of his whole lifetime he was able to free almost all of northern South America, and at this point he was known as “El Liberator.” When studying South American independence efforts, it is physically impossible to bypass Simon Bolivar because of his prevalence in all countries. He was able to weave himself into the independence efforts of many countries, including Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. He was able to free these countries through a multitude of ways and had significant effects on these countries, even to the extent that he is still known as “El Libertador” today. In 1810, Venezuela’s independence movement declared independence from Spain, and a new government was created. However, the movement was defeated by Spain, and Bolívar was forced to flee to Cartagena, Colombia. In 1813, fighting once again broke out between the rebels and the Spanish. This time Bolívar and his troops successfully defeated the Spanish. Bolívar then went to New Granada (present-day Colombia) and took command of military forces. In May 1814, he captured the capital, Bogotá. Bolívar believed that South America should have a parliamentary government modeled after England but with a president for life. By 1821, Bolívar had successfully liberated Venezuela, Ecuador, and New Granada and found the Republic of Gran

In 1806, he was aware of the efforts that Francisco de Miranda undertook in Venezuela. Francisco was a Venezuelan revolutionary who helped in easing the way for independence in South America. This is when Simón Bolívar took the decision to return back to his home country Venezuela.

When one considers the part Enlightenment ideas played in America’s move toward independence, it is firstly mandatory to address two key concepts; what we mean by the term enlightenment and what these ideas mean in relation to American Independence. Broadly speaking, the Enlightenment is commonly perceived to be a philosophical movement of the 18th Century that introduced new ways of thinking and encouraged a broader understanding of the world. However, the enlightenment realistically isn 't this simple; it wasn’t a process, nor was it simplistic and universal. It was a series of movements in public life, religion, politics and science that occurred at the hands of the minority of innovative thinkers. Roy Porter perhaps best encapsulates