History After 1492 Research Paper

History After 1492

You’ve most likely heard of the phrase “history repeats itself”. It is important to know our history so we don’t make the same mistakes that our ancestors made. For many of us our ancestors come from another country of the world, for me it is Mexico. Today i will be talking about history after the year 1492. With that said, the Aztecs had a rise and fall, there was also a road to revolution that was was a feud between the U.S and Mexico over land, last but not least there was the rebuilding of the Mexican nation.

In February of 1517, an explorer from Europe arrives at what is now called Mexico. He arrives from Cuba to present day Yucatan with three ships that carries about 100 men. Two years later on February 1519, the Spaniards

It wall most likely lead them almost straight to the war for Mexico’s independence. In September 16th 1810, a parish priest, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, expressed his rebellion which led to the road of revolution. Along with Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Vicente Guerrero and Agustin de Iturbide worked together to achieve Mexico’s independence from Spain and is still celebrated as Mexico’s Independence Day. About twelve years later, Iturbide is announced as emperor of New Spain. A year later, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna overthrew Iturbide evokes a new constitution that created a federal Mexican republic that included nineteen states and four territories. From the years 1823 to 1836 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna serves as president and makes his stand for their independence in the battle of Alamo on his last year as being a president. He was then conquered by American forces during the Mexican-American War. In February 1848, the two year battle between the US over the territory of Texas which results of Mexico losing over 500,000 square miles of territory including California, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and