Mexican National Era Flashcards
The 3 challenges to Spanish rule
Distance, taxes, poverty
Grito de Dolores
Hidalgo’s cry for help which started Mexico’s fight for independence
Empresarios
Land agents that helped recruit and bring people to an area
The Old Three Hundred
The first three hundred families to come to Texas
Plan de Iguala
A plan made by Iturbide that would guarantee that
1. Mexico would be independent
2. Mexicans would have equal rights
3. Catholicism would be their religion
Stephen F Austin
The “Father of Texas” who was their first empresario in Texas
San Felipe de Austin
Stephen F Austin’s first settlement
The Constitution of 1824
Mexico’s constitution that was made in 1824
The Neutral Ground
A zone made by the US and Mexico so they wouldn’t fight over territories
Problems with the Neutral Ground
Many Outlaws went there because there was no law enforcement
Jose Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara
The guy that made the Grito de Dolores (cry for help) that made Mexico fight for independence
The Adam-Onis Treaty
The treaty that ended the neutral ground agreement. The US got up to the Sabine and Florida and Spain got Texas
The Battle if Medina
Texas’s most violent battle that ended with Spain keeping Texas
The Louisiana Purchase
The US purchased the Louisiana territory which doubled their land size and they now border Texas
Bernardo de Galvez
He was the Spanish military governor of Louisiana who aided the US in a war
