| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Lucas Alman | Bustamante advisor, Minister of foriegn and international affairs. Raises money for gov. by dissolving military and selling tobacco monopoly. Creates tariff in hopes that Mexico industry will grow and give jobs. Tries to reform polictical system by centralizing power in Mexico city |
| Valentin Gomez Farias | Vice President under Santa Anna. Santa Anna was at estate in Vera Cruz, so powers left to Farias. Used those powers for liberal reforms in military and church |
| Religion y Fueros | Take away power from military and make schools secular (taking power away from church). Giving people rights but takes away religion and military (takes away sense of Mexican Pride) |
| Battle of San Jacinto | Santa Anna captured by Texians and forced to remove all Mexican troops from Texas |
| Pastry War | (France & Mexico). France demanded payment from Mexico as result from French citizens having to put up with Mexican gov. (French sensed weakness). Santa Anna raises army and fights French at Vera Cruz defeating them. Santa Anna hit by cannon ball and loses leg. |
| James Polk | Elected President (U.S.) in 1844, announces Texas as American territory in 1845. Manifest destiny. |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. |
| Zachory Taylor | Moves troops to Texas in 1846. Encounters Mexican resistance and declares war taking TX, NM, AZ |
| Winfield Scott | Polk sends second army led by Scott to Vera Cruz, traveling by sea. |
| Battle of Buena Vista | Taylor has 6,000 men Santa Anna attacks with 20,000... Taylor wins battle and Santa Anna leaves battlefield |
| Treaty-Guadaloupe-Hidalgo | 1847 - Mexico froced to sign treaty by Scott &Taylor. Its provisions called for Mexico to cede 55% of its territory (present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah) in exchange for fifteen million dollars in compensation for war-related damage to Mexican property. |
| Benito Juarez | Liberal, replacing Santa Anna. Passes Constitution of 1857. |
| Constitution 1857 | Breaks fuedalism in Mexico, redistributes land (from church ownership) church can have no land only buildings. Marriage is civil union not religious sacrament |
| Napolean III | Mexico owes money to France, but b/c of financial situation Juarez suspends payments. Napolean III invades Mexico at Vera Cruz then marches to Mexico City May 5, 1862. |
| Cinco De Mayo | "militia group" meets Napolean III and drives him out of Mexico. Day of final mexican independence: May 5, 1862 |
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