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=**__Group 1__**: What was Simon Bolivar's vision of the America's?= http://www.militaryheritage.com/bolivar.htm http://www.unique-southamerica-travel-experience.com/simon-bolivar.html

Simon Bolivar led military forces to South America’s northern part from Spanish rule.  Born in Venezuela 1783  -Simon Bolivar: Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela (gained independence)  -exposed to Enlightenment ideas

 -made first trip to Europe in 1799

 -Bolivar’s family Creole landowning

SIMON BOLIVAR’S VISION  Simon wanted to see America as the greatest country from its freedom, not from its power.

 -it would be hard to bring all states together  a.climatic differences  b.geographic diversity  c.conflicting interest  d. dissimilar characters

Vision:  Believed Americas could come together because of language, religion and customs.  Simon Bolivar did not like the federal system, and rejects part monarchy and part democracy. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> He wanted a central government with states similar to the U.S, he said that America needed a country such as Mexico. He believed one person would have power to give power or divide a country. Central America ended up forming a Confederation which means they consists of different parties. Simon Bolivar drew up the famous “Jamaican Letter”.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Simon Bolivar believed he “had an indisputable right to desire for (Colombia) the best form of government.” <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> www.geog.umd.edu/homepage/courses/313/Lectures/geog323_lecture3_New%20Continent.ppt

Simon Bolivar was an in visionary who wanted independence for Latin America. He had this idea that he could win independence for many of the Latin American countries from Spain. By doing this he could create a union between Latin American countries. =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Group 2:** =

= = = = Land ownership was concentrated among the wealthy and titled. The Fourth Estate (the non-titled, non-wealthy, regular people) made up the largest part of the population and had access to the least part of the land. When the Fourth Estate was asked to pay a great deal more in taxes, they became dissatisfied, and the land issue became intolerable as well. - By Answer 1

= = = = =__**Group 3**__: Which revolutions were part of the chain reaction set off by Enlightenment ideas?= "The Enlightenment: A movement of intellectual change that swept throughout Europe and North America during the 18th century." "They thus formed a natural bridge across the science-technology divide, where the "abstract knowledge" of [|chemistry] and [|Newtonian mechanics] could become the "useful knowledge" of technological development, the results of which could in turn feed back into the wider scientific knowledge-base,[14zotero://attachment/42/] creating a "chain-reaction of innovation" -"The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century brought about new ways of thinking regarding religion and politics. These new ideas would impact the French Revolution from 1789 to 1799."

== = = =__**Group 4:**__ What ideas did Thomas Jefferson copy from John Locke?= Thomas Jefferson plagiarized a famous phrase from John Locke; Jefferson's phrase was Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness, Locke's being Life, Liberty, and Property.

He also used some of Locke's philosophies in the writing of the Declaration of Independence.


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 * 1) Anesi, Chuck, “John Locke and Thomas Jefferson: Plagiarism,” 1995, [].