Lesson 5: Latin American Independence
Duration of Days: 4
Lesson Objective
Students will analyze how Enlightenment ideas and colonial conditions contributed to independence movements in Latin America.
Why did independence movements emerge in Latin America?
How did revolutionary ideas spread across regions?
Why did independence movements produce different outcomes across societies?
Colonial rule
Independence movement
Political transformation
HIS.9-12.3 Analyze complex relationships among multiple causes and effects of historical events.
HIS.9-12.7 Analyze how social, political, and economic structures shape human interactions.
Students analyze informational texts and evaluate cause-and-effect relationships.
Students examine independence movements across Latin America and evaluate how ideas and colonial systems contributed to political change. Primary DOK level: 3.
Connections to modern national identity and independence movements.
Students may assume independence movements were identical across regions.
Regional comparison charts.
Collaborative group discussions.
Comparative written response explaining differences between independence movements.
Maps, primary documents, biographies of revolutionary leaders.