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2. LA GRAN COLOMBIA
VENEZUELA TOWN OF ANGOSTURA: current Ciudad Bolivar, opened the extraordinary congress, attended by representatives of the three provinces.
DISSOLUTION CAUSES OF GRAN COLOMBIA
Large differences in the economies of these regions, to the point that not complemented each other; the social classes that controlled the economy and
power in each region, thought only of the interests of their own region. Centralizing power remained, for example, Paez preferred to be president of
Venezuela, be governor of a great republic as the Gran Colombia.
CONGRESS DECISION: Bolivar as President of the Republic, Francisco Antonio Zea Vice President of the Republic, and Francisco de Paula Santander vice
president of Cundinamarca.
ECONOMIC MEASURES: Prohibition of payment of tax or tithe by the Indians; removal of guards and giving land to the Indians; tight abolition of
aguardiente.
RIGHT CITIZENS: Freedom of wombs, the children of slaves would be free when they turn eighteen; proclamation of equality of indigenous against other
citizens; establishment of the right to vote, only those who were literate, over 25 years old and have an annual income of $ 500.
CHANGES IN THE STATE: Centralist government; territorial division by departments, provinces and districts; division of power into three branches:
executive, legislative and judicial; election of representatives to the House every four years and Senators every eight years.
CONSTITUTION OF 1821: was liberal, centralist weakly and away from the needs of the nascent republic type.
JUDICIAL BRANCH: Comprised of judges and magistrate for a period of four years.
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH: Formed by the Senate for a period of four years and the House of Representatives for a period of two years, this would elect the
State Council.
SANTANDERS GOVERNMENT : organized public finances, developed an effective policy of relations with other countries, signed treaties of friendship and
commerce with Ecuador and Venezuela, encouraged education.
EXTERNAL BALANCE: (exports + foreign capital inflows - imports - capital outflows) was negative: they had to pay debts incurred to finance the war, and
exports were few.
AGRARIAN ECONOMY: due to the forced recruitment of blacks, mulattos and peasants who worked the land, and many men died or were maimed.
OBJECTIVE OF THE LIBERAL PARTY:, eager to create a different colonial regime, Party received the support of traders interested in obtaining great
economic benefits from free trade, artisans who wanted to expand markets for their products and slaves who wanted to achieve their freedom.
9. ANTIOCHIAN COLONIZATION
hundreds of Antiochian families carried out a migration process in search of better land to cultivate, or looking for areas rich in gold and silver. The
Antiochian Mountains were less fertile for the development of an abundant agriculture that would meet the food needs of a growing population.