Title: When and how did Central America gain independence from Mexico? - Quora
Headings: When and how did Central America gain independence from Mexico?
When and how did Central America gain independence from Mexico?
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Content: The territories that were known as “Las Californias”, “Nuevo Mexico” and “Texas” covered the modern US states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas. and the Central American countries of Costa Rica,El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Belize. As you can see the territory was too big to handle, so I don’t really think Mexico or the Mexican government wanted more territory, if that would have been the case they would have never invited and give land grants to European immigrants and Americans to settle their territories . And so people did, more than 5000 people in majority Anglo who were accustomed to have slaves to do the job for them settled in those lands, (Mexico was against slavery and that was one of the rules for settlement to not have slaves in the lands), and so the leaders of those settlements, saw the opportunity to grab the land for themselves and through maneuvers and whatnot invaded the territory,then started killing the Natives and kicking out the Mexicans who lived there before any White colonist, taking their land and so on, some of those of course sided with the Anglos to establish “A New Republic”, but the biggest issue was that they simply didn’t like the idea of not having slaves, so the annexation begun under some of the US politicians and others when saw the vacuum of power and American Imperialism begun. And the rest it’s history, so no they didn’t really looked for more land because it was already too big for an unorganized government that was just beginning to formalize and heal grievances between each other, so those who settled or lived in their respective states became ‘countries’ and sought to be annexed ti US for obvious reasons, after all that was the objective since the beginning. Related Answer
David Martinez
, Us/Mexico dual citizen/history nut. Yep, that Mexican Thing. Answered 5 years ago · Author has 3.7K answers and 11.4M answer views
Why do a lot of people keep saying that Mexico is located in Central or South America? Simple Cultural Anglo centrism. England seems to believe that North America is "their domain".