HIST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: The Need, Cry Of Dolores
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The renovation of the spanish and portuguese empires (1700-1797) The goals of the bourbon and pombaline reforms. The united states (1776-1781): amount of taxes much less than the spanish and. Shows elite of latin america that revolution can happen and still have social order. Called estates general to raise agricultural taxes -> leads to social revolution, king loses head. Military takes over france, led by napoleon bonaparte. Ends with black majority killing all the slaveholders and declaring haiti a black republic (1802) Spain-france alliance: 1805 spain and france loses navy to britain. 1795- spain signed treaty, giving french control of navy and trading rights plan was to starve britain and capture portugal. French are given safe passage through spain. Napoleon"s older brother is joseph, king of spain. Constitutional crisis in spain and the new world. Hidalgo and the grito de dolores (1810) Miguel hidalgo y costilla- an evolving agenda.
