The Latin American colonies had native born citizens known as creoles and citizens who came over from Europe, the peninsulares. The administrative positions were given to the men who came over from Europe and the creoles felt this was unfair. It made the native born citizens upset with the Europeans. The Latin Americans were aware of the results of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. They were becoming interested in overthrowing there leadership and becoming a democratic society. Some people were afraid that if they revolted against Spain and had problems Spain would no longer help them …show more content…
As a result of Napoleon’s march across the Europe, individual freedoms were gained by many people who had been disregarded. Napoleon’s defeat of Spain and the substantial weakening of Spain’s navy created the conditions which allowed many of the people of Central and South America to form independence movements in the Western Hemisphere. Even after the defeat of Napoleon, the European colonial powers were facing problems of their own. There were a lot of factors during this period of history that created the right environment for the Latin American Independence movements to be successful while at the same time caused European colonial powers not to reassert their