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A student writing an essay identifying the causes of independence movements in Latin American and the Caribbean would include which of the following?(1 point)

decentralized government

Enlightenment ideas

religious persecution

the absence of slavery

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Enlightenment ideas.

(Those ideas — popular sovereignty, natural rights, critiques of monarchy — helped inspire creole leaders. The other choices were not major causes: colonial governments were highly centralized, religious persecution wasn’t a primary factor, and slavery’s presence — not its absence — shaped the movements.)