HIST174 – History of Mexico
Independence and Invasion
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Independence

I. Preludes to Independence

- Bourbon reforms
- creoles vs. gachupines/peninsulares
- royalists vs. liberals
- 1808, Joseph Bonaparte put on Spanish throne, unseats Bourbons
- 1812, Central Junta approves Liberal constitution

II. The Fathers of Mexican Independence

A. Miguel Hidalgo (Guanajuato), 1810-1811

Grito de Dolores, Sept. 16, 1810
Virgen de Guadalupe

B. José María Morelos (Guerrero), 1811-1815

C. Guadalupe Victoria (Puebla/Veracruz) and Vicente Guerrero (Oaxaca), 1815-1821

D. Agustín de Iturbide, 1821

Riego Revolt, 1820
Plan de Iguala, Feb. 1821
Independence, Sept. 1821

III. The Mexican Republic , 1824-44

A. Constitution of 1824, Estados Unidos Mexicanos

centralists vs. federalists
conservatives vs. liberals
escoseses vs. yorquinos

B. Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón

- 1833, elected president
- 1836, new Constitution (Los Siete Leyes)
- 1835-36, Texas War of Independence

Stephen F. Austin
Lorenzo de Zavala
David Burnet
Battle of the Alamo (March 6, 1836)
Battle of Goliad (March 24-27, 1836)
Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836)

 

The War of Yankee Invasion

I. The Republic of Texas, 1836-45

- slavery question
- annexation under Pres. John Tyler, 1845
- Pres. James K. Polk
- Manifest Destiny

II. The War Begins

- John Slidell
- Gen. Zachary Taylor
- first hostilities near Corpus Christi, May 1846

III. The War Proceeds

- Army of the West

New Mexico (Aug. '46)
California (Aug. '46, Jan. '47) Chihuahua (Feb '47)

- Army of the Center : Northern Mexico

Battle of Buena Vista (Feb. '47)

- Army of Occupation : Mexico City

Veracruz, March '47
Battle of Cerro Gordo
to Puebla
to Mexico City
Battle of Churubusco
Chapultepec Castle (Sept. 7, 1847)
Los Niños Héroes

III. The Aftermath

- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Feb. 1848)
- Gold at Sutter's Mill (Jan. 1848)
- Gadsden Purchase (1853)
- Revolution of Ayutla (1854)