Answer:
B. made up of independent republics.
Explanation:
Following three centuries of colonial rule, independence came to a large portion of Spanish and Portuguese America.
Between 1808 and 1826 all of Latin America with the exception of the Spanish settlements of Cuba and Puerto Rico slipped out of the hands of the Iberian forces who had ruled the area since the victory. The velocity and timing of that sensational change were the consequences of a mix of long-building tensions in colonial rule and a series of external events.
