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“The Example of the United States”: Simon Bolivar’s Mixed Feelings

Discussion of Simón Bolivar’s views of the United States

Bram Hubbell
Bram Hubbell
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“The Example of the United States”: Simon Bolivar’s Mixed Feelings
From page 101 of the AP World History Course and Exam Description
From page 101 of the AP World History Course and Exam Description

When teaching the Atlantic Revolutions, we often ask students to analyze how the revolutions affected each other. Although students often notice that many revolutionaries used the idea of “liberty” or the social contract, they often struggle to provide more substance to their comparisons. But what if we looked more closely at what later revolutionaries wrote about earlier revolutionaries?

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