Columbian Revolution

Columbia was first founded as a Spanish colony in the 16th Century, They tried to form a government with Venezuela, and Ecuador, however it unfortunately went down.

The Creoles, people born in South America, moved for change in the imperial system in the early 1800 including an end to slavery, free enterprise, and restriction on gov power.

General Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera removed the government monopoly on tobacco and then after a civil war in 1863,

Columbia was formed and the in 1886 adopted the name of the Republic of Columbia