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- Mexico’s central government was weak and unstable; the country’s elites constantly plotted against each other; what little army existed was untrained, undisciplined, and undersupplied; and the national treasury was empty. The government’s efforts to collect money for the war effort only inspired fierce resistance and further rebellion.
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Jul 17, 2018 · In March 1836, Mexican forces overran the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, achieving victory over those who had declared Texas’ independence from Mexico just a few weeks earlier.
This is a list of the major causes and effects of the Mexican-American War, which grew from a border dispute after the United States annexed Texas in 1845 and resulted in the United States’ acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square kilometers) of Mexican territory.
Nov 9, 2009 · The Mexican‑American War was a 1846‑1848 conflict over vast territories in the American West, which the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave to the United States.
Nov 9, 2009 · The Mexican Revolution, also known as the Mexican Civil War, began in 1910, ended dictatorship in Mexico and established a constitutional republic.
After independence, Mexico became preoccupied with internal struggles that sometimes verged on civil war, and the worsening situation on the northern frontier was largely neglected. In northern Mexico, the end of Spanish rule was marked by the end of financing for garrisoned presidios and the pay-offs to Native Americans to maintain peace.
In 1861, the tensions over the expansion of slavery into the west led to the U.S. Civil War. Notes: War dead as a percentage of total U.S. population. .057% of the U.S. population died as a result of the Mexican-American War. See the Historical Marker Database for estimates.
Civil war resumed, this time between revolutionary armies that had fought in a united cause to oust Huerta in 1913–1914. During the Convention, Constitutionalist General Álvaro Obregón had attempted to be a moderating force and had been the one to convey the Convention's call for Carranza to resign.
