LATIN AMERICA INDEPENDENCE IN EL SALVADOR

TYPE COLONY

• The colony were Spanish colonies

PURPOSE OF THE COLONY

• Create missionaries
• Spread Catholicism

THE LEADER WHO LEAD THE INDEPENDENCE

• There were several leaders that lead the independence of Latin America
• Simon Bolivar- leader of the Latin America Revolution
• Pedro de Alvarado- conquered El Salvador.

OPPOSED GROUPS

• Spain
• Keep their colonies
• Churches: wanted them to be all catholic

FOREIGN SUPPORT

• El Salvador did not have any foreign help
• El Salvador , with other countries of Central America declared its independence from Spain.
• Hundras and Nicaragua

INDEPENDENCE

• El Salvador, with other countries, declared its independence on September 15, 1821
• Dissolved in 1838
• Became an independent republic
• Went their separate ways (became their own country)

AFTERWARDS

• In1932 there was a peasant uprising
• By Farabundo Marti, chief Feliciano Ama, and chief Francisco Sanchez
• The government retaliated with a massive murder
• Called the "Matanza"
• Up till 1980 there were military dictators

AFTERWARDS

• From 1980-1982 there was a civil war
• The FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation front) and the government

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