Perceive, Know, Care
Students examine Juan O'Gorman's Altar to (Mexican) Independence by reflecting on the figure in the foreground that moves from torture to uprising. Students answer the following questions
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Grito de Dolores
'My children: a new dispensation comes to us today. Will you receive it? Will you free yourselves? Will you recover the lands stolen three hundred years ago from your forefathers by the hated Spaniards? We must act at once... Will you defend your religion and your rights as true patriots? Long live Our Lady of Guadalupe! Death to bad government! Death to the gachupines!'
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Simón Bolívar
A similar movement to that in Mexico begins in South America. Initially it begins from below and is crushed by peninsulares and creoles. Simon Bolivar, a creole, ultimately succeeds in bringing independence to South America, but with little social transformation. Peninsulares are replaced with creoles.
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