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Title: The West in Latin America


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The West in Latin America
  • 1750-1914 Lesson 8

2
Main Ideas
  • Independence movements in Latin America altered
    the dynamics of Western intervention
  • Latin Americas political development paralleled
    colonial rule
  • Economic crises led to a form of economic
    imperialism in the region

3
Remember
  • Most Spanish colonies independent in 1821 (Cuba,
    Puerto Rico, Philippines)
  • Brazil independent in 1822 (still friendly to
    Portugal)
  • United States the regional power by 1815 (Monroe
    Doctrine)

4
Latin American Politics
  • Parallels colonial leadership 3 groups of
    authority
  • Caudillos military dictators landed
    aristocracy
  • Church public support
  • Military officers from caudillo class

5
Economics to 1860
  • Latin Americathe garden of raw materials
  • Mexico cattle, copper, tin, petroleum
  • Brazil sugar, rubber, coffee
  • Argentina cattle, wheat
  • Chile metals, guano

6
Patterns of Intervention
  • Impact of colonizing of Africa Asia
  • The role of the United States
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Britain oil, beef
  • US fruit, coffee, rail

7
Impacts of Intervention
  • Bribery corruption
  • Rise of the middle class
  • Urbanization beyond colonial centers
  • Social impacts
  • traditional elites
  • peasantry

8
U.S. Economic Imperialism
  • The Roosevelt Corollary
  • Military actions
  • Spanish-American War, 1898
  • The Panama Canal

9
Comparing to Africa
  • Nationhood
  • Latin American civilization
  • Western Traditions, colonial economies
  • revolts frequent
  • single export economies
  • underdevelopment (pg. 773-75)
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