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Common core standards social studies 9-12

He was born in Caracas , Venezuela. He liberated many colonies from the Spanish Empire in South America. For a few years he was president of Gran Colombia , a country that no longer exists. He was sent to school in Spain like many children of rich families were at the time. He also learned about the ideas of the Enlightenment. The creoles started calling themselves Americans and not Spaniards to demonstrate that they wanted independence.

In , Napoleon conquered Spain, and made his brother, Joseph Bonaparte the new king. He explained the causes and reasons why all of South America or parts of it should be independent free from Spain's ruling. We are young in the ways of almost all the arts and sciences, although, in a certain manner, we are old in the ways of civilized society. They got supplies and they crossed hundreds of miles of plains, swamps, rivers, etc.

Many of the men died of hunger, diseases, and other causes on the way there. They were preparing to march across the Andes to Peru to defeat the Spanish royalists in August