Mexican War of Independence

They people wanted their independence, and even overthrew the government to get it (pg. 577). These wars caused Latin America to lose population, property, and livestock (pg. 581). With Spanish rule being overthrown, Spain and Portugal no longer controlled trade, Britain did (pg. 581). All of these events prevented…

The North and the South progressed transformational developments differently due to slavery, religion, politics, and economics. The South was very economically reliant on slavery. Many people in the South were farmers and grew crops such as rice, tobacco, and especially cotton. The Cotton Kingdom was growing because of the necessity of that product. Many southerners thought they needed more land because of the global demand for cotton. Many southerners believed that since the Cotton…

(Renan 9). For Mexico, at one time their race and language are what used to bind them together, but after the influence of the Spanish they lost their commonality in race, language, and religion. Author Octavio Paz confirms this by stating, “The Mexican state proclaimed an abstract and universal conception of man: the Republic is not composed of criollos, Indians, and mestizos but simply of men alone. All alone”, in his article titled The Sons of La Malinche (Paz 26). Therefore, Mexico too…

The movement known as the Manifest Destiny is based on the ideology that America was destined by God to expand their territory over immense areas. Although the settlers might not had wanted to take this certain approach, their movement was mainly an aggressive one for the first half of the ninetieth century. Americans had expanded their boundaries through conflict and treaties. The Manifest Destiny also involved the calamitous removal of inhabitants from their homes. The significance of these…

from Spanish rule. Though one might assume that an independence movement as Gordon Wood wrote in his book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, was “a full scale assault on dependency” (Wood 179). By saying this, Wood was trying to convey that social status was no longer determined by race or place of birth but rather by talent or merit. However, this statement does not apply to Mexico and their struggle to gain independence. Mexico's independence movement does not reflected Gordon Wood's…

Gonzales was born on June 18, 1928 in Denver, Gonzales did not had it easy on life. He grew up using his fists. In 1963, Gonzales organized Los Voluntarios a group that protested against police brutality. After two years he become a director of Dever’s War on Poverty youth programs; however, because of his involvement in the Albuquerque EEOC walkout, he was fired. Gonzales publishes his own newspaper called El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia. During the 1960s, Gonzales wrote the most influential…

Polk spoke his inauguration speech in front of the country and began expanding the Union. He also began a great war with the semi-powerful country of Mexico. Texas was a large chunk of land previously owned by Mexico; however, Texas won their independence and desired to be annexed into the Union. Polk began the process thus waging war against Mexico over Texas. <INSERT Mexican American War>.…

José Clemente Orozco was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico on Nov. 23, 1883, he was a Mexican painter. He specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance. He was the most complex of the Mexican muralists. Orozco was influenced by symbolism, he was a genre painter and lithographer. He painted murals in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and states in the United States. His work is complex and often tragic. At the age of 15 he was sent away to study agricultural…

intervening with other countries was when we went into Cuba and helped them win independence from Spain. This was the Spanish-American War, as an end result, America won many new territories such as the Philippines and was then saw as “powerful”. Another example could be when America used its “Big Stick” and intimidated the Columbians while fighting the Panamanians in the revolution. As a result Panama won its independence and the United States made a treaty with Panama to build the Panama…

part of the Spanish Empire, also part of Mexico but in 1836 Texas acquired independence from the country. Since Texas was part of Mexico, there is many Hispanic influences that have been shaping Texas culture. But most of the important figures do not only come from Mexico, but from Spanish-speaking countries. According to pewhispanics.org the Texas population consists of 38% Hispanics, 88% are Mexican and 12% are non-Mexican. A total of 9,794 000 is the Hispanic population in the state. With…