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Manifest Destiny was the belief that many Americans held, that the United States was destined to someday hold land “from sea to shining sea”. Emigrants came to the new world seeking their own land and freedom. For some it was freedom for religion, and for others freedom from the feudal system of Europe. With seeming unlimited land for the taking, anyone could be a lord of the new world. In the Jacksonian age people were steadily pouring westward for various reasons. The panic of 1837 brought financial unrest, and created many poor who sought a new chance out on the frontier. Others moved west from the Great Awakening that stirred a race to convert the Indians to Protestantism before the Catholics got to them first (Allen and Schweikart). …show more content…

Austin who brought 300 families and carried out the colonization (infoplease.com). Southerners were drawn to the fertile land and generous grants, making it the perfect place to expand the cotton kingdom. During the wars with France and Napoleon, Spain went into considerable debt and started pulling money from the colonies and their churches. The focus was on the war, giving the peninsulars and crillos a chance to step up in Mexican government (Handbook of Texas Online). Peninsulars had main control over the government, and the crillos conspired against them and started a rebellion against the Spanish government with the aid of Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (Handbook of Texas Online). After several battles and skirmishes, Father Hidalgo was captured and executed in 1811. Soon after that, a clerk named José María Morelos y Pavón led another unsuccessful rebellion against Spain, and he was executed in 1815 (Handbook of Texas Online). In 1820, the constitution of 1812 was restored in Spain, but the colonies were continually ignored, so the Plan de Iguala for independence was drafted and loyalist support had nearly disappeared. When Spain sent over Juan O’Donoju to take control of the government, he realized support of the crown was gone, and he signed the treaty granting independence, and Mexico set up its own constitution modeled much after the United States (Handbook of Texas

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