LILIANA MENESES LEON 3

Read the text: Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada of 1819-1820 was part of the Colombian and Venezuelan wars of independence and was one of the many military campaigns fought by Simón Bolívar. Bolívar's victory in New Granada (today, Colombia) secured the eventual independence of northern South America. It provided Bolívar with the economic and human resources to complete his victory over the Spanish in Venezuela and Colombia. Bolívar's attack on New Granada is considered one of the most daring in military history, compared by contemporaries and some historians to Napoleon's crossing of the Alps in 1800 and José San Martín's Crossing of the Andes in 1817. Complete the sentence: 1. The liberating Campaign was a military campaign launched by _____________ in early 1819 to liberate New Granada (present-day Colombia) from Spanish rule.

Complete the sentence: The campaign sought to prepare the ground for the creation of the Republic of Colombia, a state that would comprise the former Spanish colonies of the Captaincy General of Venezuela, the Viceroyalty of __________ and the Royal Audience of Quito, territories that by then, with the exception of the south and eastern Venezuela, were in the power of the Spanish; which would materialize in the Angostura Congress, with the Constitution of the Republic of Colombia.

Read the text: Simón Bolívar, byname The Liberator or Spanish El Libertador, (born July 24, 1783, Caracas, Venezuela, New Granada [now in Venezuela]—died December 17, 1830, near Santa Marta, Colombia), Venezuelan soldier and statesman who led the revolutions against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of New Granada. He was president of Gran Colombia (1819–30) and dictator of Peru (1823–26). Complete the sentence: Simón Bolívar, better known as the _________, was a Venezuelan military man and politician who is credited with being the founder of the republics of Gran Colombia and Bolivia.

Complete the sentence: Almost two centuries have passed since the army of Simón Bolívar started the march in search of the freedom of New Granada. And this tour took them through four regions: Arauca, Casanare, Boyacá and Cundinamarca. There are 25 municipalities through which the “Liberating Route” passed: Pore, Tablon de Támara, Nunchía, Morcote, Paya, Pisba, Quebradas, Socotá, Tasco, Socha, Betéitiva, Tutasá, Gámeza, Corrales, Belén, Cerinza, Busbanzá, Floresta, Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Duitama, Paipa, Toca, Chivatá, Tunja, Boyacá Bridge, Ventaquemada. All that was called __________________.

Complete the sentence: The Battle of Boyacá was in August 7-1819 and was a warlike confrontation that consolidated the ___________ of Colombia.

Complete the sentence: In The Battle of Boyacá the Realist Army defended the dominion of the ____________ Empire over the American territories and the Independence Army defended the independent and emancipating itself from the Spanish Crown.

Complete the sentence: Greater Colombia, Former republic of America, created at the behest of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, founded on December 17, 1819 by the _______________ through the Basic Law of the Republic of Colombia with the official name of the Republic of Colombia.

Complete the sentence: In this congress,____________________, notable American figures of that time met in their sessions a constitution was created that guided Gran Colombia for 8 years, it provided the following: • Adopt centralism as a new form of government. • The stria legislative power represented by the congress formed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. • The executive power would be exercised by the president and a vice president. • The judiciary would be constituted by the high court of justice, the courts and the judges. • Ratified Bolívar and Santander, respectively, as president and vice president of Greater Colombia, and elected Bogotá as capital.

Complete the sentence: The Angostura congress created Gran Colombia, made up of the current republics of Colombia, Venezuela, _____________ and Panama.

Complete the sentence: The Septembrina Conspiracy was an attempt on the life of the liberator Simón Bolivar when he was president of Gran Colombia, occurred in Bogotá on September 25, 1828. Three dozen attackers forced entry into the Presidential Palace commanded by Commander Pedro Carujo and after assassinating the guards, they went to Bolívar's room, who managed to escape through the window, with the help of his partner Manuela Sáenz. In the trials that followed the attack, his main opponent, ____________________, was sentenced to death. Bolivar spared his life and exiled him. The events mortally wounded Gran Colombia, which would disappear three years later.

Complete the sentence: The dissolution of ____________ refers to the desintegration of the political structures and central government of that South American country, and which culminated in the creation of three independent states: the Republic of Venezuela, the Republic of Ecuador and the Republic of New Granada.

Complete the sentence: Republic of New Granada was the name given to the unitary republic created by the central provinces of Gran Colombia after its dissolution in 1830. It kept that name from _______________, when it was renamed the Granada Confederation. After the dissolution of Greater Colombia, from the territories that made up the northern and southern departments, two new countries emerged, called the State of Venezuela and the State of Ecuador.

Complete the sentence: Francisco José de Paula Santander (Villa del Rosario, April 2, 1792-Bogotá, May 6, 1840) was a Colombian military man and politician, famous for his participation in the ____________ process and in the war that was waged against the centralist forces in 1813.

Complete the sentence: He was one of the main organizers of the campaign of resistance against the Spanish reconquest, which gave final freedom to New Granada. Also, he intervened in the conclusive battles of the Pantano de Vargas and Boyacá, in 1819. Known as The Man of the Laws, he was Vice President of Gran Colombia in the period from 1819 to 1827 and President of the Republic of New Granada between 1832 and 1837.

Complete the sentence: Santander built the first public education system in Colombia by promoting the creation of schools and universities, and wanted a republican order based on ______________ and separation of powers.