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- Louisiana Purchase
- This shall be the border between our two colonies.
- Agreed.
- Mexico Citizens Unhappy
- I don't like this taxing, it's unfair. *Angry noises*
- This taxing is stupid.*Angry noises*
- Father Miguel Hidalgo
- *Angry Noises*
- For the people of a lower class.
- At first Mexico and the U.S. agreed that the land would be neutral. Mexico and the U.S. agreed that the Sabine river would be the border between the two.
- Filibusters
- This is the start of the Republican Army of the North.
- Yay!
- There were four classes of citizens, The peninsulares, the wealthiest group, The creoles, Mexican people with Spanish parents, the Mestizos, people who worked for the peninsulares, and the Creoles. The last ones were the Indians, they were natives and they were treated like slaves.
- Battle of Medina
- Give us Texas or we take Goliad and Nacogdoches.*Angry Noises*
- NO! *Angry noises*
- Miguel Hidalgo de Costilla, a priest in New Spain, led a revolt for the lower-class citizens there. Many citizens joined him, but before he could reach the Rio Grande, he was killed.
- Constitution of 1824
- The first constitutional Amendment shall be...
- Filibusters are people who fight in unofficial wars. One filibuster, Jose Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara was a filibuster who started the Republican Army of the North.
- The Battle of Medina was a war between The Republican Army of the North and the Spanish. The U.S. was planning to free Texas from the Spanish but took over Goliad and Nacogdoches instead. The Spanish won the war almost a year after Augustus Magee died.
- After Mexico won the war to gain independence it needed a new government. They planned to share the power, but instead, Iturbide took all of the power for himself. After he lost power the people got together to write the Constitution of 1824.
- The constitution of 1824
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