History Homework - Latin America and Mexican Revolution

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1HISTORY HOMEWORK
Table of Contents
Latin America..................................................................................................................................2
1. Discussion on the Racial Composition (racial groups) of Colonial Latin America....................2
2. Discussion of Spanish Goals, Policies, and Administration of the Colonies in Latin America. .2
3. Discussion on the “independence movements” in Latin America...............................................3
Mexican Revolution Between 1910 to 1920...................................................................................4
1. Causes.........................................................................................................................................4
2. Factions........................................................................................................................................4
3. Leaders.........................................................................................................................................5
4. Major Battles...............................................................................................................................6
5. Results - Short-term and Long-term............................................................................................6

2HISTORY HOMEWORK
Latin America
1. Discussion on the Racial Composition (racial groups) of Colonial Latin America
Latin America does not include any single races or ethnicities. The ethno-racial
composition of the present day Latin America is a combination of the different Amerindian
population, European and other Iberian colonizers and the diverse group of African brought to
America as the slave labor and immigrant groups of the recent times from across the world. The
racial groups in Latin America often linked to both the continental mixture or ancestry is derived
from not only the phenotypical trait but also the socio economic status.
2. Discussion of Spanish Goals, Policies, and Administration of the Colonies in Latin
America
The goals of the Spanish colonies in Latin America revolved around gold, God and glory.
Gold implied one of goals of Spanish colonization that lay in finding gold or receiving economic
benefits from colonies. While God implied the goal of spreading Christianity and glory referred
to the goal of having notable achievements. The objectives of the major foreign policy of Spain
Colonies since advent of the democracy have been in increasing the influence over Latin
America. Spain had special interest in the area due to the cultural, common linguistic and the