INDEPENDENCE COL/USA

INDEPENDECE A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY

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MAIN DATA INDEPENDENCE OF COLOMBIA -20 JULY 1810-1824 -Spanish American wars of independence -Independence patriot victory -Proclamation of the Republic of Colombia (Gran Colombia) that integrated the country with the current Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama.

US INDEPENDENCE -04 JULY 1776 -The revolution and the independence movement.

-Congress debated and revised the text of the Declaration, finally approving it on July 4.

-The legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain

MORE OF INDEPENDENCE OF COLOMBIA 1. JULY 20 WAS NEITHER THE FIRST NOR THE LAST CRY FOR INDEPENDENCE It must be understood that, like any national holiday, having established July 20 as a symbol of independence responded to the political interests of the elite that did it, "explains González, referring to the group of Bogota and radical politicians who in 1873 decreed that day as the national holiday.

2. THE PROCESS WAS AS CIVIL AS IT WAS MILITARY Inspired by the Declaration of Men's Rights, the fundamental document of the French Revolution translated by Antonio Nariño in 1795, thousands of indigenous people, Afrodescendants and women took part in the independence struggle in search of claiming their rights as citizens.

MORE OF INDEPENDENCE OF COLOMBIA 3. INDEPENDENCE DID NOT END WARS (NOR DID IT MEAN COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE) In fact, the independences in Latin America not only responded to the liberating deeds, but to two substantial events: the weakening of the Spanish Empire in the midst of Napoleon's rise and the health crisis suffered by the Spaniards due to infections such as smallpox and yellow fever. .

4. INDEPENDENCE WAS NOT JUST A WAR BETWEEN SPANIARDS AND CREOLES On the one hand, because on both sides there were men and women, elites and subordinates, whites, mestizos, indigenous people and Afro-descendants, royalist neo-Granada and proindependence Spaniards. On the other hand, because there were Creoles who fought for the Crown and Spaniards who fought for independence. In fact, there were cases of indigenous people who were with the royalists because they feared that the new regime would mean an increase in taxes.

MORE OF US INDEPENDENCE 1.TAX ISSUE In 1763 the Seven Years' War ended, which involved most of the great powers of the time and in which the two main opponents were France and Great Britain. The main purpose of the conflict was to establish colonial supremacy throughout the world and that is why this war took place on several fronts: Europe, North America, Central America, West Africa, India and the Philippines

2.DIFFERENCE OF POSTURES Despite the fact that there were some attempts to provide a negotiated solution to the confrontation, the clash was inevitable and on April 19, 1775 the war of independence began, also known as the American Revolution or the Revolutionary War.

MORE OF US INDEPENDENCE 3 THE FIRST REVOLUTION This conflict opened the era of revolutions of the contemporary age and was the first independence struggle in the series of decolonization processes that followed. The British forces were in principle more powerful than those of the colonists, but they fought on their land and did not give up despite the lost battles.

4. "FOURTH OF JULY" A committee was created to draft a declaration of independence and the task was entrusted to Thomas Jefferson, a lawyer and politician also from Virginia who years later would become the third president of the United States.

INDEPENDENCE A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY

FELIPE BLANCO