La independencia de México
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La independencia de México
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Click icon to add picture Mestizos: half Indian and half Spanish (European)
Indios: Indians (called Indians because Europeans believed they had arrived to India).
Gachupines: Spaniards
Nueva España: (New Spain) now México.
Criollos: Mexican born people of Spanish heritage.
1325-Aztecs founded city of Tenochtitlanwhich today is Mexico city.
November 1519The first Spanish arrive to Tenochtitlan and are well received by Moctezuma II.
November 1519
Montezuma is taken prisoner.
May 1521
The Spanish start to take control of the Aztec
population.
August 1521
The fall of Tenochtitlan.
Colonial Times1524-1810
Spanish establish Nueva España and set up
viceroyalty.
Map of Nueva Españanow known as Mexico.
Nueva España colonized.
1800-1810First meetings to
conspire against the viceroyship.
“Gachupines” took control of the land, they formed Haciendas and “indios” became slave.
September 1810
September 16Father Miguel Hidalgo sounds the bells of the
church in Dolores Hidalgo. He gathers “mestizos”, “indios”,
and “criollos”.
The war against the viceroy ship begins.
Mexico’s independence was recognized in 1821.
¡Viva Mexico!!
¡Tierra y Libertad!