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Mexican independence
Title: Mexican independence
Category: History
Details: Words: 1916 | Pages: 8.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Mexican independence
Upon receiving its independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico opened its northern province of Texas to settlement by Americans. Initially this was a mutually beneficial proposition, the settlers got cheap land, and Mexico got a new trading partner. After time the cultural differences between these two very distinct groups of people began to erode the relationship they have worked to create. This erosion of that relationship eventually led to the Mexican-American War of 1846, often referred to …showed first 75 words of 1916 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1916 total…Texans were wrong in wanting their independence from Mexico is like saying that the Americans were wrong in wanting their independence from Britain, or that democracy isn't something to be valued, both of which aren't true. It just should have been seen by the Mexican government that the two could never coexist, and maybe the bloodshed could have been avoided, and the most unjust war in American history, the Mexican war, would have never occurred.
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