Mulattoes

Mestizos

Creoles

Affranchis

Peninsulares

Creoles

Mestizos

Slaves

Democracy became the dominant political system

Women in Latin American countries gained the right to vote

Countries became independent from Spain

Racial equality was achieved

Resentment had grown toward the peninsulares who dominated social and political life

Colonists rejected taxation without representation

French revolutionaries traveled to the Spanish colonies to organize the people

Slave revolts erupted throughout the colonies

Spain should not attempt to re-colonize Mexico

Russia should relinquish claims to Alaska and the Pacific coast

The United States will regard European involvement in independent Latin American countries as a threat to the U.S. itself

The United States should support democratic revolutions in France

to discourage US trade with Latin America

defend the Panama Canal from Great Britain

provide economic aid to Latin American nations

prevent further European colonization in the Caribbean region