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Explanation:
What usually causes unrest, has primarily to deal with oppression, and things of such norm. In the Spanish colonies, with the Encomienda system, which then led all the former Spanish colonies to rebel.
In America, with the Yankees, what happened was that after the Seven Years War, Britain was like "Hey, America, see how we helped you in this war, well how about you take some of the economic burden?" America, of course, felt extremely patronized by Britain, "How dare they give us some of the burden on a war they helped us!". Of course, afterwards there were other things, such as the Stamp act (taxes on stamps), Quartering act (forced American citizens to house British military when ordered, Tea act (the tax on tea, which led to the Boston Tea Party) Intolerable acts (Last straw; the Brits closed Boston harbor in retaliation). This produced groups such as the Sons of Liberty (that were quite nefarious in actions).
For South America, let's say, Brazil, Pedro I, son of the king in Portugal, just went to Brazil and founded the Empire of Brazil.
