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THE INDEPENDENCE REVOLUTIONS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - ✓ Social. was resentment over the prerogatives of the Spaniards. The
        disputes between Spaniards and creoles for management positions extended to all areas.
        
        ✓ Ideological. The forerunners of independence became aware of the
        differences between the colonies and the metropolis, highlighted the value of their own and raised the alternative of the fatherland as a separate entity
        from Spain
        
        ✓ Influence of US independence and the French Revolution. Napoleon
        names king of Spain.
        To the causes, we must add the
        events that precipitated the independence. One of them is that
        on May 5, 1808 Napoleon imprisoned Charles IV and his son
        Ferdinand VII and forced them to abdicate in his favor. Then, he
        named his brother, José Bonaparte, king of Spain. In many Spanish cities were organized Autonomous Boards
        that promised to govern until the return of Fernando VII to the throne, but were dissolved by the French. Only the western part of Andalusia was free.
        The Junta de Sevilla was proclaimed Supreme Government of all Spain (a fiction, because the rest was under King Bonaparte, called by the
        Spaniards "Pepe Botellas").