After many years in the military he was soon ascended to a general. For years after he was a general he then became the president of Mexico. He was well known for establishing a strong centralized state. He became president
“I have not come here for such reasons, I have come to take away their gold.” That is some words Francisco Pizarro said from the past. Francisco Pizarro was known as one of the most successful conquerors in Spain. I will be discussing Francisco Pizarro's whole life, career, contributions, and what life would be like without Francisco Pizarro. Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Spain around 1474.
The movie “Cinco De Mayo:The battle” should be a must see because is base on true events, is also the biggest budget Mexican movie ever, but most important it educates people on what Mexico commemorates in that day. On May 5th in 1862, the French Emperor Napoleon III tried to conquer Mexico as part of his empire building plan. The almost invincible French Army at that time, with more than six thousand soldiers, tried to establish a monarchy in Mexico. But the Mexican Army commanded by the General Ignacio Zaragoza with only two thousand soldiers defeated the French Army.
One of the members of his army killed a group of Aztec nobles. Eventually all the riches that belonged to the Aztecs, now belonged to the spanish. Killing, fighting, and punishing was normal for people to do, to find riches. Kidnapping was also something a lot of people did. Remember Cortez?
He agitated and provoked the war. The Americans wanted land on Mexico. The Americans had fired shots in Mexico, so a war was started. Zinn also points out that the invasion of Mexico was a defensive action to get support from the people. It was still seen as a war though.
Cesar Chavez is an inspiration to Hispanics, Mexican, and farm laborers everywhere. Without the leadership of Cesar Chavez, farmworkers in California would still be mistreated and underpaid. Without the legacy of Cesar Chavez farm owners would’ve gone back to their old ways of treating the farm laborers. Cesar Chavez was a true impact and made a huge difference many people’s lives. Growing up Cesar’s parents owned a farm.
He marched for days,nights,weeks, and months as finally he battled for the Capital, Mexico City. His efforts were not strong enough and some say not wise. His leadership along side with Allende was enough for thousands of men agreed to fight for their liberty. When he was finally captured and executed, his accomplishments were seen by “All the city's dignitaries and officials” as a representation of the wave of the future.(New World). This
On March, 31, 1927 in Yuma, Arizona. Cesar Chavez a well known Mexican American revolutionary leader was born and is here to make changes that will change America's work laboring conditions forever. Cesar Chavez is a person who knew what it felt like to be treated badly for all the hard work you did to a labor farm work force. Cesar and his family owned a family farm but lost the farm when they got into the Great Depression and lost it all. Unfortunately they had nothing but that didn't stop the Chavez family they keep their head held up high and worked really hard to get their family ahead in life.
Cesar Chavez was born to Juana and Librado Chavez on March 31st, 1927 in Yuma, Arizona and had six other siblings. During the Great Depression his family was evicted from their land, forcing them to migrate and become farm workers. This led him to drop out of school and become a full-time field worker just after finishing middle school to help provide for his family. They worked in many different california fields such as ones in Oxnard, Brawley, King city, Atascadero, Gonzales, Wasco, Salinas, Mendota, Selma, McFarland, Kingsburg, and Delano. His own experience as a migrant farm worker, and witnessing the experience of other workers opened his eyes how poorly treated they all were.
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States. He was one of many great men to serve our country. He gave us national parks, and more freedom to the presidency. Roosevelt also pushed to have the pure food and drug act. He served in the presidency from 1901 to 1909 and was known as one of the ablest presidents and an icon of the Progressive Era.
Benito Juarez was the head of liberal reform and president of the country from January 15, 1858 to April 10, 1864. Benito Juárez took possession of the Presidency after the flight of Ignacio Comonfort, before the War of Reformation. Juarez wanted to institute constitutional reforms and create a democratic Mexico, but the French intervened. However, he endured the French invasion and protected the Mexican government from being overthrown by an itinerant government.
In 1829 Mexico use to trade with Philippines and to other countries like Asia, Germany, Chile, and Peru. “In spite of the economic and political ascendancy of culiacan in the 20th century many continue to consider the part to be the true cultural and spiritual capital of the state.” When time was passing by the French was kicked out in 1868 out of Mexico and then the British started to come in they were here to bring different thing to Mexico and also they started to look for treasure. ”sinaloa played a major role in the Mexican revolution and was both the site of important military engagement and staging ground for the constitutionalist and march south along the pacific coast towards Mexico
Jesús Velasco-Márquez, a modern-day Mexican professor of studies wrote an article in 2006 about the Mexican-American War. He said, “US historians refer to this event as ‘The Mexican-American War’, while in Mexico, we prefer to use the term ‘The U.S. Invasion... From Mexico’s point of view, the annexation of Texas to the United States was inadmissible for both legal and security reasons. ’’’ (Velasco-Márquez, 12). During the time of the independence of Texas, Mexico was ruled by the dictator General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
In the provided excerpt, "Borderland, La Frontera," Gloria Anzaldúa uses historical memory to challenge dominant narratives surrounding the Mexican-American War. She revisits the historical context of the war and its impact on the borderlands, shedding light on the experiences and perspectives often overlooked or silenced by mainstream narratives. Anzaldúa uses historical context to clarify Mexico's response to the ongoing migration of the Anglos into Texas as an attempt at reclaiming their territory. However, as mentioned in the text, "The Battle of the Alamo, in which the Mexican forces vanquished the whites, became, for the whites, the symbol for the cowardly and villainous character of the Mexicans. It became (and still is) a symbol that legitimized the white imperialist takeover" (p.6).
He was one of the most controversial figures of Mexico. He reigned over Mexico for over thirty years and established a strong centralized government that he firmly controlled. What put Diaz on the map politically speaking was a General during Battle of Puebla (1862) The 1857-60 civil war in Mexico had disorganized the country's finances and the new President, Benito Juárez, was forced to suspend payments of foreign debts in 1861. French intervened to gain repayment of loans Mexico owed them as well as Germany and Great Britain.