Mexican Empire

Mexico began its course towards independence in a series of battles and wars with the Spanish armies in 1810 to regain its pride, lands, and above all, cultural origins where Mexico was named victorious and culminated in the signing of Plan de Iguala in 1821, a treaty in which Spain acknowledges Mexico as a newly independent country. However, the wars were costly and Mexico was left economically bankrupt along with a broken and distrustful and corrupt government, and a social climate in which prejudice existed. Although the Mexican empire wrestled to find its place in a prosperous and unified nation, it continued to harbor rooted shame and discontent against castas especially native Indians because they represented and were a reminder of all …show more content…
However, each separate racial class was adversely affected from receiving quality education, a political and military hierarchy, that would allow them social mobility. These social institutions were only attainable by European-born Spaniards because they regarded themselves as true heirs, descendants from a pure breed who were held to a different standard in society. This distinction of superiority created racial categorizations or structures in which non-white European members were prevented from these social institutions, because they were members of a different population with inherit physical characteristic variations mainly focusing on the color of their skin. Similarly, racist structures were common in the beginning of the 19th century during the period of Western colonial expansion to prevent the minority, or non-white Americans from social mobility. Immigrants from Europe and Asia, as well as native Indians all of whom possess different physical traits were among the social groups structured by race and prohibited to receive public resources that would otherwise enable minorities to achieve a better way of life proportioned by good schools, that would lead to career opportunities and a better income to afford better health care and ownership of homes in safer …show more content…
But it was land Americans wanted because they learned that through land ownership, specifically the privatization of land allowed for it to be leased or sold creating wealth. Om the other hand, land provided the industrial movement which allowed production of goods which produced Capital, err go more land more wealth. The construction of railways also produced more profits as it allowed for trade through long terrains. More land ownership also meant more slaves could be added to work them driving production upwards thereby increasing and securing American interest of profit. However, this venture was circumvented when Mexico refused to sell their territories over to the American colonies. Infuriated by this Americans needed a solution to proceed with the goals of expansion so they decided to intervene. Walt Whitman, journalist with the Brooklyn Eagle exclaims, “Yes! Mexico must be thoroughly chastised!... Let our arms now be carried with a spirit which shall teach the world that, while we are not forward for a quarrel, America knows how to crush, as well as how to expand” A justifiable reason was required by the United States to claim these lands without force and war was the answer to this. So war was incited through provocations army overstepping their boundaries when confronting the