4-23-13 Mexico

Mexico

Santa Anna fought more battles than Napoleon and George Washington combined
defeated at the Battle of San Jacinto, and the next day he was taken captive into Texas. The battle of San Jacinto only took 13 minutes and Santa Anna was able to change into his common soldier clothes, and the Texans didn't know he was the president until a Mexican soldier said "el presidente"
he was constantly in and out of the government. He was president 11 different times in 40 years
Mexico had and still has issues with voting fraud
Mexico responded to the annexing of Texas by declaring war on the US. This led to the Mexican-American War, and America gained much of the Southwest.
La Reforma
- implemented by President Juarez in the 19th century
- reforms designed to modernize Mexico and turn it into a nation state
- goals
  - land redistribution
  - separation of church and state
  - increased educational opportunities for the poor
President Juarez
- as a liberal reformer, he led his nation to modernize

Anglo-Texas Revolt

Anglo-a white, English-speaking American, an American that was going into Mexico Territory (Texas)
why go there?
- inexpensive lands
- more independence
- farming was ruining the soil and it was unsuitable for cotton
- Spanish and Mexican govnmts were making a lot of land available for Angle-Americans
why it started?
- cultural differences
  - learning the new language
  - becoming Roman Catholic
  - following Napoleonic Code
  - forced to be in Mexican military
- slavery
  - no slaves under Mexican govnmt
  - any slave that passed border made free
Santa Anna was captured at Battle of San Jacinto and forced to sign a treaty 3 weeks later
Battle of Velasco was the first violent incident between Mexican and Texans. Texans won.
after the war, Texas declared themselves the Republic of Texas
- effects
  - slavery-considered a slave state
  - Republic of Texas
  - many people died
  - nobody survived in the Battle of Alamo
why American didn't follow law
- Mexico invited Americans to settle
- Mexico won independence from Spain
- Texas territory rebelled cause didn't want to follow Mexican laws

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