How were the Latin American and North American struggles for independence different?history

The struggles for independence in these two regions were
different mainly because the struggle for independence in North America was more broadly
based and more ideological.

The struggles for independence
in Latin America were typically not based on the desire for democracy and equal rights
for all.  The struggle in North America was, with the obvious exception that there were
no equal rights contemplated for women or African Americans.  The Latin American
colonies' struggle for independence was almost solely the struggle of an elite group of
"criollos" or people of Spanish descent born in the Americas (Simon Bolivar was an
example of this).

Because the Latin American colonies had
only small populations of criollos, their revolutions were about the transfer of power
from one elite (the Spain-born Spaniards) to another (the criollos).  The American
colonies' population was almost all white and so its revolution called for a shift of
power from British elites to (more or less) all colonists.