When napoleon seized the spanish throne and replaced it with a french king, criollos in latin america
believed napoleon would make things better.
believed the people should take control.
supported the new french king.
supported reinstating the spanish king.

When Napoleon seized the Spanish throne and replaced it with a French king, criollos in Latin America believed the people should take control.

In response to the enthronement of King Joseph Bonaparte in Spain as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, between 1808 and 1810 government boards  that exercised sovereignty on behalf of the abdicated King Ferdinand VII, called "Juntas", were installed both in the Iberian Peninsula, and in the American territories. The resistance of the American juntas to submit to the Central Supreme Junta formed in Spain, radicalized positions and led to the armed struggle between realists and patriots. From 1810, various American territories began to declare themselves independent national states under republican regimes, forming large "liberating" armies of continental scope, among which were those commanded by the Argentinian José de San Martín and the Venezuelan Simón Bolívar. The independence of the new states was consolidated in the 1820s, after the victory at the Battle of Ayacucho. After losing El Callao in January 1826, the only territories dominated by Spaniards in America were Cuba and Puerto Rico.

answer: they arrived in new york.

they remained in rural areas and worked at jobs such as lumbering or farming.