Hayley said...1/15

> It's sooo unfair that I have to do this on a Friday, but I'll
> suck it up and here is what we did today in class or at least
> what I wrote down in my notes:
>
> It all started when the ceiling started to leak and then after
> that then we talked about history, the reason we were all there:
> The king and queen's power was weakening in Spain so the
> colonies started to rebel while they were distracted
> The creoles (the lower white class that still had power but not
> a lot) out numbered the pensolares (the upper class in the colonies)
> The revolution in Latin America first started out to be about
> the creoles wanting to take the pensolares out of power and they
> wanted to be equal to them (economic rights and power)
> Then we watched an intersting cartoon with two really creapy
> looking kids in it who came in 3rd place at their science fair
> and then went back in time to Latin America:
> The kids come across the King Ferdinand and Bolivar in 1799
> compeating in a tennis contest: Bolivar wins and the King is mad
> Bolivar then tells the kids he's mad at how the king treats the
> coloniesThey organize a rebellion at Bolivar's house
> ~the soldiers would never suspect Bolivar
> to be unhappy with things because he
> was in a high power, owned land and was rich.
> Then the rebellion goes first to Venezuela, Columbia (which is
> where they fall down a purple mountain), Peru, Ecuador, Boiliva,
> and lastly Panama
> Bolivar's goal from the get go was to unite and form one Latin America
> ~they name a country after Bolivar
> No body agrees with this view and they break out into a food
> fight (aka civil war)
> Bolivar belives he is a failure amd dies in exile from his own
> personal choice
> Toussaint and Bolivar were painted like Napolean and were
> painted on horses climbing rocks(even though Napolean was really
> on an ass)
> Then we looked at the Spain articles and then lastly the Mexico
> articles Spain article is Bolivar's pep talk to the
> colonies, more specifically only, the creoles:
> They are a mixed people with a common conflict (trying to figure
> out who exactly they represent Spain, their heritage, or the
> colonies, where they live)
> They are restricted by the Spanish crown
> Bolivar is shocked that the United States Government is able to
> manage their peoples for so long and that type of government was
> not for Latin America (not ready for a democracy)
> Which is not really and enlightened way of thinking because it's
> not total equality for all of the peoples
>
> Mexican Constitution of 1824 was written by the creoles:
> Article 3 - they are restricting what religion the Mexicans can
> practiceArticle 50- they are giving the peoples freedom of press
> (irony!)Father Hidalgo organizes the peseant revolt (different
> from Bolivar because it was a lower class rebellion)
> Their revolt was, from the start, about gaining their
> independence (eco. and social welfare)
> 1820- Mexico gains independence
> 1821- Emperor is in charge (which was not what they wanted to happen)
> 1822- Establish a republic that was run by the Creoles (oh no!)
> 1824- Constitution republic sets up
> Then FINALLY as we were leaving Mrs. Separ asked us who out of
> the three rulers we talked about was the most enlightened and
> most of the class agreed that it was Toussaint. Okay the next
> person to suffer this fate is Jamie. :]