Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism is basically a devotion or pride to your own country not a king or queen. They cared about there people since they had similar language, culture, religion. In a way were all nationalistic to America by just saying the pledge of alligience. Some people have flags on their homes. Those are some types of things that show your pride for you country.

Before Italy became Italy, Austia and the Spanish owned the territories that made up Italy. After time the soon to be Italians were getting sick of their current rulers.

Simon Bolivar: Latin American Revolutions

For years Latin America were being treated unfairly by the Europeans. Only the men who were born in Spain were allowed to control the government. And that angered the creoles and lesser classes who were born in the country. Napoleans brother was controlling Spain at the time and the citizens felt that they shouldnt be loyal to a king who wasnt even Spanish. To stop this it took alot of work from the people and a man named Simon Bolivar. He is also know as liberator of South America. He won independence for Venezuela and helped Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Bolivia and Peru to win their independence. He started with research. Before he started fighting he became informed. He went to France and the United states and studied there research.