When viewing the Mexican Revolution, a dichotomy between destruction and creation appears. When it kicked off in 1910, it was in the pursuit of noble goals. But at its core, the Revolution was a rebellion and at the heart of all rebellions is war. And with war comes destruction and death. While the Revolution last for at least a decade and perhaps longer, for the individuals involved life was often, as Thomas Hobbes once wrote, nasty, brutish, and short.
The Invasion of Mexico America caused trouble with Mexico over land that wasn’t even rightfully theirs. Sure, if this event in history would not have happened, Arizona, including most of the west side of America, most likely wouldn’t be apart of the United States today. But for them to go over to another country uninvited, plus break it’s laws and kill their people when they were supposedly “against invasion.” Yet, that only seems to apply when it’s flipped backwards; as in they’re the ones being the invaded, rather than the invader. That just makes America a hypocritical and biased nation.
War, an act partaken by almost every major nation and civilization that has ever been around in the world. War has been the fall of many civilizations, the cause of deaths of millions and the destruction of the history of people. There has been one war of particular interest that has changed the face of a civilization permanently, and that was the Spanish war with the Aztecs a war that made what the current country of Mexico. This war was diversely influenced by many things such as race and gender and served as a reminder of political and social decisions that should or should not have been made and shows a surprising similarity to events taken in the United States.
In the textbook “From Indians To Chicanos”, the author’s, James Diego Vigil, purpose for writing this book is to educate about the history of Chicanos, their experiences, and what changed their lifestyle. James Diego Vigil’s objective for this book is to write about the Chicano culture and how it has changed for ethnic minority groups due to time and different geographical and socioeconomic settings. He also addresses how the Chicano experience motivated Chicanos to dedicate themselves to shape their own identity and refuse to accept outside ideas and theories about them, about their identities. Vigil wants to cover on how this culture change resulted by using two concepts, one being the six C’s and the second being how and why many identities
The American, Mexican, and French revolutions were similar and different in their own ways. There was a common cause, goal, and effect of each of these three revolutions in addition to the unique causes, goals, and effects. All of these revolutions were caused by political instability, had the common goal of political reformation that was met through revolutionary events, that resulted in the formation and adoption of a new constitution and form of government. There were many causes that led up to these three revolutions, some are shared by all three, some only by two, and some are unique causes. All three of these revolutions were caused by political instability in the country these revolutions took place in.
The article by Sam White focuses on how the Little Ice Age affected the Spanish conquest of New Mexico, with particular emphasis on how the below average temperatures and drought combined with many other factors to led to conflict with the Pueblos. The climate was completely different than that the Spanish were familiar with, so it took several generations for the Spanish to be able to settle in the area. They even had a couple of false starts, as they could not effective grow food in a climate so vastly different from Spain’s Mediterranean climate. It also, interestingly enough, forced the Spanish to put the climate into their own religious context, leading them to think that this harsh weather as punishment from God. Meanwhile, the Pueblos were well adjusted to the area, after hundreds of years of living there.
1680 was a fairly influential time in the new growing world. During this time the Spanish had come to what is now known as New Mexico and thy came in and tried to conquer the new world. Like most other countries coming over to the new world the Spanish came with the idea of finding gold, glory, and spreading the word of the gospel. Yet conflict rose when the Spanish missionaries came along and tried to convert the Pueblo people to the catholic religion. As this happened things became tenser between the two groups and lead to what we know as The Pueblo Revolt or Popé’s rebellion.
The treatment of the native inhabitants varied among the three explorers. The worst treatment of the natives was seen in great detail through the perspective of De Las Casas. During his expedition in the Indies, he and his comrades killed millions of the natives to take everything and anything they wanted. He stated, “And thus they have deprived the Indians of their lives and souls, for the millions I mentioned have died without the Faith and without the benefit of the sacraments. This is a well-known and proven fact which even the tyrant Governors, themselves killers, know and admit.
In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas was established in order to evenly divide unclaimed lands between Portugal and Spain. This led to the Line of Demarcation, in which the non-European world was divided into two zones. Portugal had rights to the eastern hemisphere, and Spain had rights to the western hemisphere. This allowed Spain to colonize areas in the New World. Even though they had this opportunity, they were not able to colonize specific areas in North America due to competition with other European countries.
The Pueblo Indians at long last rose up again in a rebellion called the Pueblo Rebellion, otherwise called the Great Pueblo Revolt, in 1680. The uprising was driven by a Tewa shaman named Popé. The issue of religion was key to the Pueblo Rebellion. The peaceful Pueblo individuals had endured the Spanish for quite a long time. They were willing to do the offering to the Spanish if permitted to hone their conventional religion in the kivas.
INTRODUCTION Throughout the 1840s and 1850s a major war happened called the Mexican American War which drastically changed the U.S. and Mexico and lead to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to be signed and which established the Rio Grande and not the Nueces River as the U.S Border. This also lead to the U.S. annexation of Texas and lead to the Mexico agreeing to sell California and the rest of the territory for 15 million. So you 're probably wondering why the war was fought but you 'll find that out later.
When thinking of the Spanish Conquest, two groups often come to mind: the Spaniards and the Native Americans. The roles of each of these groups and their encounters have been so heavily studied that often the role of Africans is undermined. As Matthew Restall states in his article Black Conquistadors, the justifications for African contribution are often “inadequately substantiated if not marginalized [as the] Africans were a ubiquitous and pivotal part of the Spanish conquest campaigns in the Americas […]” (Restall 172). Early on in his article, Restall characterizes three categories of Africans present during the Conquest – mass slaves, unarmed servants of the Spanish, and armed auxillaries (Restall 175).
The musical phenomenon corridos came about in the 1800s. However a dramatic increase of this music occurred until the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Revolution started on November 20, 1920. The revolution started because of a very corrupt government that was ran by Porfirio Diaz. His 34-year term called El Porfiriato, was violating the principle and ideals of the Mexican Constitution (EDSITEment).
Europeans had many effects on the area now known as Texas and on the Indians. Few if any of those effects were positive. The Conquistadors affected the people, the land, and caused the colonization of Texas. They had many motives for their deeds, converting the Indians to Christianity, finding cities of gold, or just claiming land. A Spanish conquistador named Cabeza de Vaca crashed into the mainland near Galveston in 1528 and began exploring the area now known as Texas.
The United States war with Mexico continues to be a divisive topic among many people because of its background. The Mexican-American war was a fight between Mexico and America for land. America’s belief at the time was Manifest Destiny, which meant that they believed that America should extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean. In the end, America benefited from the war and got the land. The United States expanded its size, achieving their dream of Manifest Destiny.
