Latin American Independence Why Did The Creoles Lead the Fight

lOMoARcPSD|23780900 DBQ Online Warning: You may not post outside of your school's password protected site. Latin American Independence: Why Did the Creoles Lead the Fight? Student Essay During the 19th century, in Latin America, The creoles led the fight against the spanish throne for their desire of power, equal representation in government, and economic control. The need for political power was a main factor in the creole decision to lead the war/fight. Other than Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico, all of Latin America escaped the control of the Iberian powers that had dominated the continent since the invasion between somewhere in the 1800's. In the spanish colonial intake the creoles felt their rights were being violated therefor with inspiration from the enlightenment creoles decided to stand together and overrule their government in order to be more independent. Why did the creoles lead the fight to independence? The need for political power was a main factor in the creole decision to lead the war/fight as well as the desire of power,equal representation of government, and of course economic control . One reason the creoles led the war/fight for independence is due to them wanting a say in what they do/ equal representation in government.The reason for this was because Creoles would fear of social unrest and lack of political and economic control over the Spanish peninsula and again wants a say in what they do. One reason the creoles led the war/fight for independence is due to them wanting a say in what they do/ equal representation in government.The reason for this was because Creoles would fear of social unrest and lack of political and economic control over the Spanish peninsula and again wants a say in what they do. One reason the creoles led the war/fight for independence is due to them wanting a say in what they do/ equal representation in government.The reason for this was because Creoles would fear of social unrest and lack of political and economic control over the Spanish peninsula and again wants a say in what they do. For example in Document B, " The Creoles had growing economic and lOMoARcPSD|23780900 social influence but the Peninsularés monopolized all administrative positions.* Denied the political power to go along with their rising prominence, many Creoles began to think of doing away with the inconvenience of Spanish colonialism and move toward independence." As you can see due to the Peninsularés having all the administrative position the creoles were denied their political power to go forward with them growing economically and being just a social influence with no power therefor making them almost afraid of lack of power politically and economically. A second reason Creoles led the fight for Latin American independence was their desire for more representation in government. For example in document E it states My children: a new dispensation comes to us today. Will you re-ceive it? Will you free yourselves? Will you recover the lands stolen three hundred years ago from your forefathers by the hated Spaniards? We must act at once…. Will you defend your religion and your rights as true patriots?... Death to bad government! Death to the gachupines [peninsularés]!” This shows that with these meaningful words or rebellion the creoles have that confidence to fight for more say towards government not just again for their own saying but for all the creoles and spanish to have back whats theirs. A third reason Creoles led the fight for Latin American independence was their desire for economic control . To prove my statement in these following documents they state "The Creoles led the fight because they were Americans by birth but not the peninsulares (Doc A). Simon Bolivar said they were special and better than the peninsulares. The Creoles led the fight because they hated the monopoly (Doc C). They couldn't stop the drought either (Doc D)." This shows that the creoles with a little motivation have been craving yet also wanting that economic power over themselves to justify them being able to have a say in what they as people do and say. lOMoARcPSD|23780900 Despite the fact that individual Creole leaders like Simon Bolivar surely had their own motivations for wanting to lead the freedom movement, the Creoles were motivated for three main reasons. These three include desire of power,equal representation of government, and of course economic control .