1. Independence Movements of America and Latin America
The creoles wanted unrestricted trade within the Atlantic system, but the vigorous reassertion of power by the Bourbons threatened this aspiration. ... "The Hapsburg imperial state had settled into a comfortable inertia which gave the creole oligarchies in practice what was denied to them in theory: access to the North Atlantic trading system and power to shape their societies largely to their own advantage" "(Williamson 197). ... This had given the Spanish colonists a taste of political power. ... The Bourbon reforms eroded the loyalty of the creole aristocracy because they threatened the cr...
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