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What were the interventions and whose interests did the United States protect? While protecting American interests and closely monitoring the elections in Nicaragua, the U.S. government directly military intervened to control Nicaraguan government and economy. For almost three centuries countries held as colonies by Spain, suffered much from oppression and violence. After Nicaragua became free from Spain the United States government recognize them as independent nation, and a year later, in 1823, using the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. announced to the rest of the world that Nicaragua was to remain freed. Later, using the American Constitution as a framework, Nicaragua chose a difficult form of independent government (Langley, 55).
These words, the Cry of Dolores, incited a revolution for change in New Spain in the early decade of the 1800s.Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, called the Father of Mexico, spoke these words on September 16, 1810 in front of a group of what seemed like random men, but were in fact banded together for want of freedom from the peninsulars or pure blooded Spanish born in Spain. Miguel Hidalgo joined with other Mexican revolutionaries such as, Ignacio Allende, Mariano Abasolo, Juan Aldama, and Jose Maria Morelos (Hamill, 100).“They could fight for exalted abstractions like God and king” (Henderson, 74). Miguel Hidalgo was in fact a mad man because of his obvious lack of military experience and organization, his killing of innocence, and setback of advancement for Mexico’s poor. He knew not was it was like to be a military man and also, he eventual loss and execution made the Spanish believe that the poor had to be kept in their place out of fear of another rebellion. This caused even harsher treatment of New Spain’s lower class.
The slaves demanded independence and rebelled in Saint Domingue. Collecting an army of his own more than 1,000 men joined forces of the educated slave Toussaint. In pursuit of independence for slaves, he fought for a decade against the French, British, Spaniards and various mulatto groups. By 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte’s army invaded Saint Dominique where L’Ouverture was captured and deported to France where he died in 1803. The Haitian revolution continued under his lieutenants Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christopher, where a combination of slave strength and yellow fever defeated the massive French army.
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However it was the first time settlers of a colony had challenged their parent country and fought hard to win their independence, and by doing so set up a government with its own laws and constitutions- which is the perfect example of a revolution. A revolution usually involves a relatively swift change of government with a change of governing philosophy e.g. monarchy to republic. In this essay I am going to explore the events leading up to the war and the war itself to show that the American War of independence was in fact a revolution. It all started one bright sunny day in 1602 when three large ships arrived at new land… These settlers landed at Jamestown, Virginia, and the first English colony in America was founded.
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