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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)

Enlightenment ideas

religious persecution

decentralized government

the absence of slavery

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Enlightenment ideas.

Explanation: Enlightenment ideas about natural rights, popular sovereignty, and liberty helped inspire Creole elites and other groups to challenge colonial rule. The other choices (religious persecution, decentralized government, absence of slavery) were not general causes of Latin American/Caribbean independence movements.