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| 375202815 | Pierre Toussaint L'Ouverture | Educated soldier/former slave. Led a successful slave revolt in St. Daminique (Haiti), they defeated Napoleon's army with the help of their immunity to the yellow fever. He died in a prison in France. | 0 | |
| 375202816 | Jacques Dessalines | A former slave, named himself governor-general of Haiti and declared the island a free republic, Haiti then became the first independant nation in Latin America. | 1 | |
| 375202817 | Simon Bolivar | The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela, he led military forces there and in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. He defeated the Royalists (supporters of the Spanish crown during the reign of Napoleon. | 2 | |
| 375202818 | Jose de San Martin | Creole who was an officer in the Spanish Army. He became an Argentinian rebel general in 1814. He liberated Argentina, Chile, and Peru with help from Bernardo O'Higgins. | 3 | |
| 375202819 | John VI | (1767-1826) Portuguese King that moved the empire to Brazil in 1807 upon the invasion of Napoleon. He returned to Portugal in 1821 when Napoleon was defeated and left his son Pedro in charge of the colony. | 4 | |
| 375202820 | Pedro | King of Brazil who declared independence from his father (king of Portugal) and declared himself emperor and established a constitution. | 5 | |
| 375202821 | Pedro II | Became emperor of Brazil in 1831, he reformed society and made the empire a major exporter of coffee, his daughter, Isabel, abolished slavery in 1888 when he was away, causing the land-owners to revolt and establish a republic in 1889. | 6 | |
| 375202822 | Miguel Hidalgo | Creole priest that sympathized with the abused, led a revolt in 1810 that the Spanish where able to put down at Calderon Bridge, where he was executed. | 7 | |
| 375202823 | Jose Morelos | He led the Mexican revolutionaries against the loyalists but the land-owning class turned against him when he made clear his intentions of distributing the land to the poor, he was executed in 1815. | 8 | |
| 375202824 | Treaty of Cordoba | This treaty recognized Mexican independence from Spain. Signed on August 24, 1821 by Agustín de Iturbide, the man who had defeated Jose Maria Morelos, but then joined the Mexican rebels. | 9 |
