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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