Activity

4. Napoleon took the opportunity to __ in Spain and the french army set up camp and took Spain by storm.
6. The intellectual criollos: Francisco Javier Clavijero, José Antonio Alzate and Fray Servando Teresa ___ proposed autonomy or independence from Spain based on the idea of popular sovereignty.
7. Enlightenment idea #2
9. The period between 1785-1786 is known as “the year of _____”, because around 300 000 people died due to food shortages and epidemics.
10. Spanish people opposed that Joseph Bonaparte ____ king so this situation ended up triggering the war against the French on Spanish territory.
11. The ideas of the enlightened thinkers were smuggled into the colonies of New Spain, where intellectual ____ found a new way of looking at life.
12. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in 1787 showed that it was possible to adopt a republican government system in which individuals had ______ rights that no one could take away.
13. Napoleon began to extend the French territory in Europe and decided to block commerce with England;____ refused to participate and Napoleon decided to invade it as punishment.

1. In 1812, they gathered at Cadiz to write and enact a _____ that established a constitutional monarchy as the form of Government.
2. Haciendas increased their surface by absorbing pieces of land belonging to___peoples during the seventeenth century.
3. The _____ideas that derived from the Enlightenment were spread in Jesuit schools, which is where the criollos were educated.
5. Enlightenment idea #1
8. Many ___in New Spain were formed by land obtained from royal grants.