April 2015
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Start Reading Chapter 12
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Discuss Chapter 9:
Enlightenment / Adam Smith, Rousseau / Decartes / Newton Montesquieu
Education Reforms & Machines
Intendant System / Colonial Industries failures
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Finish Reading Chapter 12
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Chapter 10 Geopolitics, Military command, social reform / Tupac Amaru / 1780-83 Revolutionary Outbreaks / 1804 Haiti Slave Revolt / Colonial complaints: armada tax, tobaco tax, indian tribute, alcabala (sales tax), visitador
Winds of change / Importance of Geography
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Start Reading Chapter 13
Easter Sunday
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Finish reading Chapter 13
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Continue Discussing Chapter 10
Brazil Slavery Resistance
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Work on the Rough Draft!!!
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Continue Discussing Chapter 10
Video on Tupac Amaru
Journal 4
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Work on the Rough Draft!!!
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Chapter 11
Crash course: Latin American Independence
Simón Bolívar:Comuneros, Slave revolt in Haiti
Chapter 11 / Spaniards: control of upper colonial administration, invested $ in nation, attracted/married Creole women, private interests above that of the community,
Creoles: wasted inheritance, no military training
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Work on the Rough Draft!!!
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Chapter 11
Bolívar: well read, imaginative
San Martin: False plans (ruses), secretive, deals w/indians, spies and double spies, 24hr works schedule, mule packs and special horse shoes, rope bridges, borderline bankruptcy
Hidalgo: abandoned his religious concerns and concentrated on technical aspects of crops, musician, spoke different foreign languages, worked for land reform and the end of slavery
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Peer Reading
Rough Draft
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Chapter 12
Class Debate: State Powers (Bolívar, Dom Pedro II, U.S. Govt.)
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Re-read Chapter 13.
Start reading Chapter 14
San Martin,
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Library Research Day
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Finish reading Chapter 14
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Journal 5
