Nationalism and the creation of Italy

Nationalism is belonging to, rooting for, and fighting for, your own country. Nationalism is expressed and used everyday of our lives. I am nationalistic because I consider myself an american. I agree with the same flag that all americans share, and I speak our national english language. Also, all americans vote for the government.

Nationalism helped in building new nations. Nationalism helped in building Italy as we know it today. Italians were sick of having foreign rulers, and desired a change. In 1832, Giuseppe Mazzini organized a nationalist group called 'Young Italy'. Italy used to be made up of city states that were ruled by Austrians. Soon the Italians joined up and fought for what they desired.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon Bolívar is credited with contributing decisively to the independence of the present-day countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia. He is sometimes known as the "George Washington of South America." He is well known also as "El Libertador." He was greatly motivated by the French and American Revolutions.

In Venezuela he joined a group of patriots that seized Caracas, in 1810. He demanded independence from the spaniards. Great Britain did not allow them full independence, thus Bolivar recaptured Caracas in 1813 from the spaniards, when he took control of a patriot army.

Bolivar wars forced to retreat to Columbia and then Jamaica. In Haiti he gained a force that allowed him to take Venezuela, and became dictator. Next, he went and took control of Columbia from the spaniards. He then organized the original republic of columbia. In 1824, his army defeated the spaniards and he liberated Peru. Upper Peru was named Bolivia in his honor. The constitution that he created for Bolivia is one of his most important political pronouncements.