who was the father of mexican independance?
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sorry, i have to go with Miguel Hidalgo, Ricky Ricardo is a very close second though, thanks for being so helpful!!!
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Good Morning JOliver, I am a North American Texan of Mexican Mestizo Ancestry for sure.\nGreat to be here.  Thanks for the question.  Jose
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The Olmecs\nMéxico's first-established culture,had far-reaching influence.\nTeotihuacans\nThis city-state of Teotihuacán located on the central highland of México covered an area of 22.5 sq. km. and its population reached 200,000 inhabitants by the year 350 AD (probably the largest city in the world at the time).\nThe Toltecs\nThe Toltecs occupied the northern regions of the Valley of México. They built Tula, one of México's most impressive ancient cities. They strongly influenced later Mayan and Aztec cultures.\nThe Mayans\nTheir achievements are noteworthy, they controlled a huge empire, created complex systems of mathematics and astrology and were also skills traders. They were master architects and engineers.\nThe Zapotec and Mixtec\nThe Zapotec and Mixtec cultures developed in the Valley of Oaxaca. They were superlative builders and artists; they created magnificent temples, pottery, and metal work. Remarkably, these two ancient cultures still survive today. Descendants of both ancient Zapotecs and Mixtecs inhabit today the State of Oaxaca.\nThe Aztecs\nThe Aztecs are probably the most well-known of all México's ancient cultures. The Aztec empire was composed of three Nahua's groups established in the Valley of Mexico with Tenochtitlán (presently Mexico City) as the main city-state. Their empire was huge when Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1519; by 1521 they were conquered by the troops of Hernán Cortés.\nDuring the colonial period, México was called "New Spain", and it covered three centuries of its history: from the 13th of August of 1521, the date of the conquest of Tenochtitlán by the Spanish, until 1821 when the Independence movement was consummated.\nThe Modern period began with the War of Independence (1810-1821). The priest Miguel Hidalgo initiated a revolt against the Spanish rule on the 16th of September, 1810. This date is México's National Day.\nIn 1862 the French Emperor Napoleon III intervened militarily in México: an empire was established from 1864 to 1867, under the Austrian prince Maximilian of Hapsburg.\nOn the 5th of May 1862, General Ignacio Zaragoza, named Major General of the Army by the government of Juárez, obtained victory in the Battle of Puebla against the French.\nIn 1867 Benito Juárez re-established the Republic, and while in power died in 1872.\nHope this helps as you can see there were way more than 2 cultures that blended to create modern Mexico.
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What history book did you read?  Texas won their independence from Mexico and then asked the United States to annex them.
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Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of independence. But James Madison was the "father of the Consitution"
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El Cinco de Mayo("The Fifth of May" in Spanish) is a national celebration in Mexico. It commemorates the victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza over the French expeditionary forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
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Mexico was trying to seak independence from spain. But Spain won't allow it. At one time Spain comes to Mexico to check on their followers and they revolt.  They had it to show Spain that they will fight for their freedom.  Mexico was very outnumbered by the Spainiards but they still won the war, on the 5th of May. This is why they celebrate Cinco De Mayo.
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Bustamante's Decree, 6 April 1830. In 1828, General Manuel Mier y Ter醤 was commissioned by President Guadalupe Victoria as early as 1827 to help in negotiating the boundary between the Republic of Mexico and the United States of the north and determine the situation in the colonies in more detail after the Fredonian Rebellion. He was the head of a scientific commission spending most of the time in Nacogdoches in 1828 gathering data for a boundary survey. Teran described the condition in Texas to President Victoria: \n\n"The whole population here is a mixture of strange and incoherent parts without parallel in our federation; numerous tribes of Indians, now at peace, but armed and at any moment ready for war, whose steps toward civilization should be taken under the close supervision of a strong and intelligent government; colonists of another people, more aggressive and better informed than the Mexican inhabitants, but also more shrewd and unruly; among these foreigners are fugitives from justice, honest laborers, vagabonds and criminals, but honorable and dishonorable alike travel with their political constitution in their pockets, demanding the privileges, authority, and officers which such a constitution guarantees. Added to this motley mixture were the slaves beginning to learn the favorable intent of the Mexican law toward their unfortunate condition and held with an iron hand to keep them in a state of subjection. The Mexican natives were poor and ignorant, and the local civil officers venal and corrupt; and the colonists, imagining that they were typical, despised all Mexicans. The incoming stream of new settlers was unceasing; and the first news of them came by discovering them on land which they had already long occupied; the old inhabitants would then set up a claim of doubtful validity, a law suit would ensue, and the alcalde had a chance to come out with some money."\n\nIn 1829 when he became Commandant of the Eastern Interior Provinces with Texas in his jurisdiction in response to agitation in the United States for purchase of Texas, he denounced such methods in the following to the minister of war:\n\n"Instead of armies, battles, or invasions, which make a great noise and for the most part are unsuccessful, these men lay hands on means which, if considered one by one, would be rejected as slow, ineffective, and at times palpably absurd. They begin by assuming rights, as in Texas, which it is impossible to sustain in a serious discussion, making ridiculous pretensions based on historical incidents which no one admits---such as the voyage of La Salle, which was an absurd fiasco, but serves as a basis for their claim to Texas. Such extravagant claims as these are now being presented for the first time to the public by dissembling writers. The efforts that others make to submit proofs and reasons are by these men employed in reiterations and in enlarging upon matters of administration in order to attract the attention of their fellow countrymen, not to the justice of the claim, but to the profit to be gained from admitting it. At this stage it is alleged that there is a national demand for the step which the government meditates. In the meantime, the territory against which these machinations are directed, and which has usually remained unsettled, begins to be visited by adventurers and empresarios; some of these take up their residence in the country, pretending that their location has no bearing upon the question of their government's claim or the boundary disputes; shortly, some of these forerunners develop an interest which complicates the political administration of the coveted territory; complaints, even threats, begin to be heard, working on the loyalty of the legitimate settlers, discrediting the efficiency of the existing authority and administration; and the matter having arrived at this stage---which is precisely that of Texas at this moment--diplomatic manoeuvers begin."\n\nF
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Mexico most definitely DID NOT cede Texas to the US. Texas won her independence from Mexico in April of 1836 because President Santa Anna failed to live up to the terms of the Constitution of 1824.\n\nMost of the people who fought and died in the Texas Revolution were Mexican citizens. The majority of Texas' citizens - both Anglo and Hispanic alike - supported the Texans fight for independence.\n\nTexas was an independent Republic for ten years before joining the United States in 1846.\n\nInterestingly, when Texas won independence and joined the United States ten years later, Texas territory extended all the way up into Colorado. Do the illegal immigrants plan to recapture Colorado in their laughable plan to regain Aztlán???
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BERT Corona (free excerpt) \n\nBorn 1918, a union organizer who worked to provide Mexican Americans with better wages and living conditions.\n\nBert Corona was born into a revolutionary family. At the age of thirteen, his father, Noe, began to fight in the Mexican Revolution to overthrow the long and corrupt rule of Porfirio Díaz. He joined the forces of Pancho Villa, one of the most powerful rebels.
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The only trade I know about is land trade...he was president of Mexico, then dictator.  Led the battle against Texas for Texas independence.  Remember the alamo?  he briefly went to school, but I don't know where.
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Wow, you really need to go back and study history.  \n\nThe Spaniards conquered the Aztecs in Mexico at about the same time that the English Colonies were starting in the North East.  \n\nThe Mexicans are the descendants of the Spaniards and Aztecs (as are most of the South American Continent.)  That is why they speak Spanish.    \n\nAmerica never stole land from the Mexicans.  We stole land from the American Indian (Native Americans).  Texas was at one point part of Mexico, but it won it's Independence on it's own and became an independent sovereign nation.  Later of course Texas citizens voted to become part of the US.
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Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe. Muerte a los Espanollos.\n\nThe 'Grito de Dolores' was shouted (grito=shout/scream/yell) by Father Hidaldo from the balcony of the Mayor's palace in Dolores (now Dolores Hidalgo) on Sept 16, 1810.\n\nFather Hidalgo (a priest, obviously) and Ignacio Allende (a Spanish Army officer, Criollio=born in Mexico) raised an army of Indians in revolt against Spanish rule in Mexico. Father Hidalgo gave a rousing speech called "El Grito de Dolores" and they marched across Mexico killing Spaniards.\nMajor oversimplification. For starters see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grito_de_Dolores\n\nDick
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undocumented. Was part of Aztec, Inca, and Maya culture. Before spain landed in the region.
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Jose Maria de la Cruz Prieto\n(25 of March of 1799 -? 23 of November of 1875) Military man and Chilean politician. Son of Luis de la Cruz Goyeneche and Dark Josefa Espinoza, cousin of Presidents of Chile Jose Prieto Joaquin Vial and Manuel Prieto Bulnes and father-in-law of President Aníbal Pinto Garmendia.\n\nOne enlisted in the Army the 27 of October of 1811, specifically in the Battalion Dragoons of the Border, participated actively in Batalla de Chacabuco and Batalla de Maipú\n\nJose Maria de la Cruz postulates itself like presidential candidate, but its defeat at hands of Manuel Montt Towers makes revolt against the government causing the 1851 revolt.
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Simon Bolivar.  You can read a short article on him in the link below.
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The Mexican Revolution was a violent social and cultural movement which brought the beginning of changes in Mexico. The changes in turn brought a sense of freedom to the citizens of its country. The revolution started because of the actions of the Mexican President Porfirio Diaz. His regime not only favoured the involvement of the United States in Mexican life, it was centered on expanding the Mexican economy. If successful, this would have eventually classified Mexico as a capitalist country but in the end would have harmed the peasant class which populated most of Mexico. The Diaz regime can be considered the main cause of the revolution but the governments who followed him can be seen as factors in the continuation of the revolution.\n\nFrancisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, Pancho Villa and Venustiano Carranza were all important individuals in the revolution because of the role they played in attaining a stable government in Mexico. All four leaders were important in gaining a sense of what was important to the people of Mexican and what was needed in gaining stability and freedom in Mexico. Emiliano Zapata can be seen as a Mexican hero because of the stand he took against Porfirio Diaz. Zapata helped the peasant class take back their land and regain Mexico as their own nation. These individuals are significant when classifying important individuals who were seen in the revolution.\n\nThe Zapatistas were members of Zapata’s revolutionary guerilla groups. They took their name from Zapata who led these groups into attaining a stable Mexico. These guerilla groups were important in involving the Mexican population in their government. Guerilla groups were seen all across Latin America and were highly effective because of their ability to organize and attack in small groups.\n\nThe effects of the Diaz regime were greatly felt in agrarian land reform. Laws were implemented to benefit foreign investors. The Diaz regime confiscated large sections of land from the people of Mexico. The Mexican Revolution saw new agrarian land laws passed to give back the people what was rightfully theirs. The laws were seen as an important step in achieving a stable government and country.\n\nThe involvement of women in the Mexican Revolution was substantial, especially because of the way they were regarded in the early 1900’s. Women took part in politics and in life on the battlefields. This was a significant advancement for women because their role in the revolution became as important as a male role. The United States also played a vital role in the Mexican Revolution. Early on they wanted to stabilize the Diaz government to ensure that relations between the two countries would remain stable. This would also ensure that the foreign trade between the two countries would remain. United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution began as monitoring the revolution and ended in militaristic intervention. Further, the Mexican Revolution influenced the United States with the increase in immigrants from Mexico to the U.S. and their push for change in Mexico from across the border.\n\nThe role the Mexican Catholic Church during the Revolution is also an important aspect because of the many transformations it takes. The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico has a very influential role during the course of Mexican history. This role is greatly altered during the course of the revolution.\n\nThe youth movement in any revolution is important because youth are seen as the future of a nation. In Mexico, the results were not very positive because the many university students had been given the title of anti-revolutionaries. They were accused of non-accepting of the ideals and beliefs of the revolution.\n\nMexican culture, such as cinema, music and literature, was also a driving factor in gaining support during the revolution. All parts of the culture were organized to show people that change was needed in order to gain a free Mexico. Mexican nationalism was an ev