The West in Latin America

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The West in Latin America

• 1750-1914 Lesson 8

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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

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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)

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Latin American Politics

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

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Economics to 1860

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

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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

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Impacts of Intervention

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

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U.S. Economic Imperialism

• The Roosevelt Corollary
• Military actions
• Spanish-American War, 1898
• The Panama Canal

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Comparing to Africa

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