The aftermath of this war was to throw Mexico into anarchy, civil war and a French invasion. Civil war erupted in Mexico following their war with the "Colossus of the North." ... Juarez himself was a full blooded Indian. ... Napoleon and France, however, had another idea. ... In the election of 1871, a war hero against the French named Porfirio Diaz ran unsuccessfully against Juarez for the Presidency of Mexico. ...

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Cortes and his men invaded, assaulted and killed thousands of Indians in smaller kingdoms on their move inland. ... It was no surprise that the Spanish were able to "defeat far superior numbers of Indians," (Shi and Tindall, America p. 27). Though the British and French were like Spain in their ethnocentric view points, the British and French were willing to act out of reason, try to avoid conflict, and attempted to co-exist with the natives during their colonization of the New World. ... France didn't even attempt colonization in the New World until the mid 1500's; it wa...

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This angered the Indians and they revolted in 1541 against the abuses of the grants (encomienda system) in the Mixton War. This turned out to be unsuccessful for the Indians. ... A little over one million Indians remained alive. ... Independence Day September 16,1810 Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Morrelos led an Indian uprising. ... The treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo ended the war, but took over half of Mexico's land. ...

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What was once the pattern of Indian exploitation by the Spaniards is now the pattern of exploitation of the rural poor and urban slum dweller by the social/economic structure. ... Santa Ana dominated Mexican politics for about 30 years, and it was under his command that Mexico lost Texas, as well as losing the Mexican-American War. ... France took advantage of the American Civil War to install Emperor Maximillian as a puppet on the throne in Mexico City. He was eventually defeated and executed by a group of liberal reformers, led by a native Oaxacan and Zapotec Indian named Benito Juare...

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Realising the advantage of this almost immediate following the Indians were put to work for the Church, which was in turn controlled by Spain. ... However the Indians were kept poor and ignorant of the bigger picture. ... They placed taxes on the mestizos (mixed Indian and Spanish), the Indians and the Negroes. ... The US made several important acquisitions of land including the Louisiana Purchase from France, the purchase of Alaska from Russia and the conquering of the southwest from Mexico, which expanded it's natural resources and gave the nation room to grow. ... Mexico however was de...

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The main goals in the expansion were to Christianize the Indians, to gain trading power, to expand their empire, and of course, to gain the great mineral wealth of the Americans. ... The chief employment in all these countries was agriculture, and both males and females, as with us, were brought up to it, and trained in the arts of war- (54). ...

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Shortly after, war broke out between the Aztecs and Culhuacan, and the Aztecs were routed. ... On one of these islands the Aztecs founded the sacred city of Tenochtitlan and immediately built an altar to their patron god, Huitzilopochtli, God of War. ... Finding a solid Muslim wall to the south in Northern Africa and the powerful French kingdom to the north, the only direction that the Spanish saw in which to expand was to the west. ... The main goals in the expansion were to Christianize the Indians (as dictated by the pope), to gain trading power, and of course, to "acquire" the great minera...

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The first attempt to begin a Mexican Revolution started when Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Morelos, went against Spaniard officials who were governing Mexico. Both priests led attacks, Hidalgo and Mexican Indians went after plantation owners in northern Mexico. They were armed with tools and were motivat...

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