History After 1492
You’ve most likely heard of the phrase “history repeats itself”. It is important to know our history so we don’t make the same mistakes that our ancestors made. For many of us our ancestors come from another country of the world, for me it is Mexico. Today i will be talking about history after the year 1492. With that said, the Aztecs had a rise and fall, there was also a road to revolution that was was a feud between the U.S and Mexico over land, last but not least there was the rebuilding of the Mexican nation.
In February of 1517, an explorer from Europe arrives at what is now called Mexico. He arrives from Cuba to present day Yucatan with three ships that carries about 100 men. Two years later on February 1519, the Spaniards
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It wall most likely lead them almost straight to the war for Mexico’s independence. In September 16th 1810, a parish priest, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, expressed his rebellion which led to the road of revolution. Along with Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Vicente Guerrero and Agustin de Iturbide worked together to achieve Mexico’s independence from Spain and is still celebrated as Mexico’s Independence Day. About twelve years later, Iturbide is announced as emperor of New Spain. A year later, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna overthrew Iturbide evokes a new constitution that created a federal Mexican republic that included nineteen states and four territories. From the years 1823 to 1836 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna serves as president and makes his stand for their independence in the battle of Alamo on his last year as being a president. He was then conquered by American forces during the Mexican-American War. In February 1848, the two year battle between the US over the territory of Texas which results of Mexico losing over 500,000 square miles of territory including California, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and
1495, three years after Columbus's discovery of the new world, Maximo Zamoria, a Spanish conquistador, set off to the Americas in search of gold and glory. Maximo gathered a crew of one hundred strong and well-trained men, along with his right hand man, Samuel. With the permission of the Spanish king, Maximo and his men gathered enough supplies for half a year of travel, and got the finest Spanish sailing vessel to set off for the new world.
Soon after battling insurgents and policing the Indian tribes he was promoted to general . Being in many battles after that and after that, Santa Anna grew older being in more and more battles as that happened we’ll move on to his later life. As Santa Anna grew older he became five-time president of Mexico. In March of 1821 he made the first of the dramatic shifts of allegiance that characterized his military and political career by joining the rebel forces.
Antonio was elected as the president of mexico in 1833. In 1836 he led a Mexican army to Texas, after a short victory Sam Houston quickly annihilated his troops. This gave the Mexicans “independence” from Texas, giving it to the United States. For a short while he was held in jail in Washington, he talked with president Jackson and he got let out to go back to Mexico in February of 1837. In 1839 after being faced with a liberal revolt the Mexican president Bustamante had named Antonio as the interim president.
On August 24, 1821, the Spanish governor Juan de O’Donojú signed the Treaty of Córdoba, which approved a plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy. In 1822, Iturbide was proclaimed the emperor of Mexico. However, his empire was short, as Santa Anna and Guadalupe Victoria formed the plan of casa Mata in December, which set up a republic, with Guadalupe Victoria as its first president in 1824. In conclusion, Santa Anna fought with the Mexican people during battle for independence but became particle when he was offered a promotion by Iturbide and later broke ties with Iturbide to form a
At the Convention of 1836, de Zavala was elected vice-president of the ad interim government of the Republic of Texas. After Santa Anna 's capture at the Battle of San Jacinto, de Zavala and Secretary of Treasury Bailey Hardeman were commissioned to accompany Santa Anna to Mexico to negotiate a permanent treaty, but outraged soldiers of the Texas army circumvented this plan and detained Santa Anna for several
In 1517, was when Montezuma first got the news that strangers have landed on the coast. By then,
Insert Name: Taylor Insert Teacher Names :Mrs. Taigen, Mrs. Keithley Insert Subjects Social Studies and language Insert Date: The Mexican American War “Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.” (Polk 1795) In the year of 1821, Mexico gained its independence from Spain. It was a rough time period because wars were raging, in every country.
In the seventeenth chapter of A People 's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn, he discussed the anger and emotion in African Americans. He implored how it can erupt in big ways. Even though, the government created reforms, they were not fundamental and the laws passed were not enforced. This developed two different ideologies in society about how to deal with the problem of discrimination and racism. In society, African Americans had been oppressed for a long time, leading to the ultimate question "Does it explode?"
In the early to mid 15th century the Spanish started to make large headway into North America. Shortly after Hernan Cortés conquered the Aztecs in Mexico, a small group of withered explorers headed by Alvar núñez cabeza de vaca shipwrecked off the coast of Texas. After enduring many illnesses and attacks his force was reduced from 300 to only about 90 men. For the next four years de vaca and his crew barely warded off extinction by trading with indians located in texas, however, illness and attacks from indian tribes cause their numbers to dwindle to the point where only de vaca and three others remained.
I believe that Columbus Day shouldn’t be a holiday. Columbus was horrible to the Native Americans, He took them as slaves, wiped out them with diseases, and just killed them outright with superior weapons like guns. He tried to convert Native Americans into Christians while trying to wipe out the Native American Culture. In Columbus’ journal Columbus wrote “All the inhabitants could be taken away to spain to become slaves.”
Texas was part of Mexico, with the land being cheap Americans wanted to settle there and when Americans tried claiming it as their own he had to fight back just like anyone would. Americans were trying to take over and they disagreed with his laws therefore he was standing his ground. Later Santa Anna described in a letter that killing defenders of the Alamo was his only option. The letter blamed William Travis on the amount of violence that occurred. He stated that if Travis had not have been so disrespectful towards him that he would have allowed Sam Houston to establish a dominant presence
pg.156) In 1830, Mexico abolished slavery and any further American immigration into Texas. Americans were enraged about the new restrictions and were determined to resist the Mexican laws -as many of they were slave owners and many others continued to immigrate. By 1835, Americans outnumbered Mexicans in Texas. In 1836, in the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, (about) 175 Texas rebels initiated a rebellion, that would be known for the Lone Star Republic and the start of the Texas Revolution.
At that time, only about 75,000 Mexican citizens lived north of the Rio Grande. As a result, U.S. forces led by Stephen W. Kearny and Robert F. Stockton were able to conquer those lands. Taylor advancing, and captured Monterrey in September. With the losses adding up, Mexico turned to old standby General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the strongman who had been living in exile in Cuba. Santa Anna convinced Polk that, if allowed to return to Mexico, he would end the war on terms positive to the United States.
When Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, a string of ruthless dictators and weak presidents made Mexico an easy target for its powerful neighbor, the United States. The US swooped in to expand its territory and its popular institution of slavery. By doing so, the US started a war with Mexico that was justified for illegitimate reasons. The Mexican-American War was not justified because the US took Mexico’s land for the expansion of slavery, and justified their taking advantage of Mexico when it was politically weak by hiding behind Manifest Destiny.
The Mexicans finished the revolution against the Spanish and the newly independent Mexicans struggled to appoint a stable leader. The Mexicans went through 13 different presidents prior to the Battle of the Alamo. The first president General Guadalupe Victoria established the Liberal Constitution of 1824. General Antonio López de Santa Anna took power in their fledgling republic in 1833 from the previous leader Agustin de Iturbide. Agustin, a former Spanish general turned rebel, allowed the Americans to settle in Texas long as the landowners were Catholic.