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The Americas After Independence

The Americas After Independence. Wood 17 A nation’s ability to prosper depends on its leaders’ ability to recognize resources, identify priorities, and make effective progress. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis. Political & economic capitalism lead to prosperity expansion isolationism

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The Americas After Independence

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  1. The Americas After Independence Wood 17 A nation’s ability to prosper depends on its leaders’ ability to recognize resources, identify priorities, and make effective progress.

  2. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis • Political & economic capitalism lead to prosperity • expansion • isolationism • immigration • type of government matters federalism / strong central government regionalism

  3. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis • How leaders respond to regional differences leads to success or failure, union or division • North v. South (civil war) in the US • increased home rule in Canada • fragmentation of Gran Colombia (Ven, Col, Ecu) • Central America pulled away from Mexico

  4. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis • Keep the cycle of innovation going war productivity wealth relocation/improved living conditions mechanization exports …

  5. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis • Know when to engage in diplomacy - US: isolation, then US/Eur*/Canada relations - cultural influence can lead to political alliance - which led to two nations that ‘spoke the same language’ Romanticism Darwin / Darwinism Freud / modern psychology - Mexico? - Other Latin American states?

  6. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis • Pay attention to demographics who’s the elite? who are the worker class? do the ppl – mixed as they are – participate in policymaking? can the people – mixed as they are –self-rule?

  7. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis • Theory isn’t practice can you apply current ideology? can you experiment with ideas…and recover?

  8. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis • Establish a political institution who has authority and how can they assure the peaceful transfer of power? GW & Juan Manual de Rosas: both charismatic and republican only GW succeeded (why?) Juarez & Diaz: how successful, and why?

  9. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis • The role of a belief system – and its church – matters • US: no state religion • GB: state religion • Canada: no state religion • Latin America: Catholic Church Juarez viewed Ch as obstacle (“Land & liberty”) same slogan as French Rev’n – why did Juarez fail?

  10. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis • Don’t get left behind: Meet economic demands and you can participate in the global economy Portugal: couldn’t Spain: couldn’t US: could GB: could Mexico / Diaz: could

  11. Top Ten Facts to Support the Thesis • Bring the country with you regularly assess who benefits, who loses will the losers become a liability? Mexico: Diaz & foreign investors…oh no! US: slaves, immigrants, women…free’m = $ dev’t Americas: slaves’ freedom yields $ dev’t Cuba: ready for independence, but US wasn’t US ready for canal, but Colombia wasn’t

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