H.W. #16

Read the link, (it's a textbook link) and answer questions 1 & 4.
Please use complete sentences for question 4
1. TERMS & NAMES
Identify
• peninsulares- At the top of Spanish American society, men who were born in Spain and could hold high office in Spanish colonial government.
• creoles- Spaniards born in Latin America, ranked after the peninsulares. They couldn't hold high political office but could rise as officers in the Spanish colonial armies.
• mulattos- People of mixed Europeans and African ancestry.
• Simón Bolívar- A wealthy creole who helped many nations gained its independence such as Venezuela.
• José de San Martín- A general who helped Latin American's nations gained its independence such as Argentina.
• Miguel Hidalgo- A priest in the village of Dolores who issued a call for rebellion against the Spanish.
• José Morelos- The leader of the rebels who led the rebellion against eh Spanish after Miguel Hidalgo's defeat.

4. ANALYZING THEMES
Power and Authority
Consider the following statement: “Through its policies, Spain gave up its right to rule in South America.” Do you agree or disagree? Explain. Did Spain ever have the right to rule?
THINK ABOUT
• Spanish colonial society
• why independence movements arose
• who gained the power that Spain lost

In my opinion I disagree that Spain have had the right to rule over the  Spanish colonial society. Before the Spanish came, each colony in Latin America had already had a leader. But with the arrival of the Spanish, the leadership was placed in the hands of Spain. Spain doesn't have the right to rule what is not theirs. It isn't a right when the Spanish had to steal the leadership from the people through force and fear.