2. Life is a highway…
• In the movie Cars, Lightening McQueen falls in love
with another culture and eventually helps change things
for the better.
• Similarly, the Enlightenment was about bringing about
CHANGE.
• The Creoles were sent to Europe for education (a key
ingredient to the Enlightenment) just in time to learn from
Enlightenment philosophers. They returned to Latin
America to realize that things needed to CHANGE!
3. Oh the places you’ll go….
• When the Creoles
returned home, they
led the majority of the
independence
movements against
the Spanish
governments.
4. The brave and the bold
• But the Creoles
weren’t alone in
seeing the injustice of
the social pyramid.
• The Mulattos and
Mestizos chose to join
in the quest for
independence.
5. Nothing to fear…..
Napoleon’s
attempts to unite
the world under
French power
further scared the
Creoles. They
wanted freedom
from Napoleon,
just like the
European powers
did.
6. We learn history so…..
This led to an increase in nationalism in Latin America.
This is similar to the effect Napoleon had on Europe
that we discussed last week. What’s that about history
repeating itself?
7. Something borrowed….
The revolutionary ideas that were spreading
in Europe inspired creoles and the other
lower classes to begin fighting for the rights
and equality not allowed by their class
systems.
8. Fighting for Freedom….
The Creoles and other lower
classes used Enlightenment
ideals like Locke’s belief in a
social contract and combined
it with nationalism to start a
fight for freedom from Spain!
