How Did California Get Its Independence
2.2. California context in 1821
Mexico won their independence, that meant that they had instant command of California, by they only started to exert control in 1825. José María de Echeandía was the name of the new governor, representing the republicans he liberated the mestizo to the frontier. But that does not meant that United States ( California ) was happy with it, actually they had a lot of ambition on getting back their territory.
The spanish and their culture did not last a lot at the time, because Echeandía made a law that declared all spanish to be "illegal immigrants" and ordered to leave the new country of Mexico. And while time was passing, no spanish were located in California and their culture was disappearing, making the mexican culture predominate. At the time, mexico had a giant territory, actually, in the mid-nineteenth century, Mexico was the second largest country in the world. So, how could this giant territory got lost? How is it that a handful of soldiers conquered two million square kilometers for their country? The answer lies not only in the expansionist ambition which since then distinguished the neighboring country from the north, but in a man: Antonio López de Santa Anna, who, in collaboration with the high ecclesiastical spheres of that time and in connivance with the USA authorities, left …show more content…
It was an event that defined both nations, that transformed the continent and forged a new identity for its people. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico. It was signed on February 2, 1848 and constitutes the oldest treaty that is still in force between the United States and Mexico. As a result of the treaty, the United States acquired over one million two hundred thousand square kilometers (California was one of the territories) of valuable territory and emerged as a world power in the late nineteenth
Mexico won their independence, that meant that they had instant command of California, by they only started to exert control in 1825. José María de Echeandía was the name of the new governor, representing the republicans he liberated the mestizo to the frontier. But that does not meant that United States ( California ) was happy with it, actually they had a lot of ambition on getting back their territory.
The spanish and their culture did not last a lot at the time, because Echeandía made a law that declared all spanish to be "illegal immigrants" and ordered to leave the new country of Mexico. And while time was passing, no spanish were located in California and their culture was disappearing, making the mexican culture predominate. At the time, mexico had a giant territory, actually, in the mid-nineteenth century, Mexico was the second largest country in the world. So, how could this giant territory got lost? How is it that a handful of soldiers conquered two million square kilometers for their country? The answer lies not only in the expansionist ambition which since then distinguished the neighboring country from the north, but in a man: Antonio López de Santa Anna, who, in collaboration with the high ecclesiastical spheres of that time and in connivance with the USA authorities, left …show more content…
It was an event that defined both nations, that transformed the continent and forged a new identity for its people. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico. It was signed on February 2, 1848 and constitutes the oldest treaty that is still in force between the United States and Mexico. As a result of the treaty, the United States acquired over one million two hundred thousand square kilometers (California was one of the territories) of valuable territory and emerged as a world power in the late nineteenth