Title: 
Headings: 
Mexican
 
Independence
 
and
 
Anguish

Comparing
 
Mexican
 
Independence
 
with
 
the
 
American
 
Revolution

What
 
happened
 
when
 
Thomas
 
Jefferson
 
narrowly
 
won
 
the
 
bitter
 
election
 
of
 
1800
 
over
 
John
 
Adams
 
in
 
what
 
Jefferson
 
called
"The
 
Revolution
 
of
 
1800"?


Content: Meanwhile,
 
after
 
Santa
 
Anna
 
overthrew
 
Iturbide,
 
he
 
allowed
 
the
 
Congress
 
to
 
finally
 
develop
 
a
 
constitution. In
 
1824,
Mexico
 
adopted
 
a
 
constitution
 
similar
 
to
 
the
 
U.S.
 
It
 
was
 
a
 
federal
 
government
 
with
 
national
 
and
 
local
 
governments
 
sharing
power,
 
it
 
had
 
three
 
branches,
 
and
 
it
 
guaranteed
 
certain
 
rights. However,
 
Catholicism
 
was
 
the
 
only
 
religion
 
that
 
people
 
were
allowed
 
to
 
practice
 
under
 
the
 
new
 
constitution. A
 
war
 
hero,
 
Guadalupe
 
Victoria
 
was
 
the
 
first
 
elected
 
president
 
in
 
t824. But
not
 
much
 
improved
 
in
 
Mexico. The
 
Congress
 
still
 
went
 
through
 
endless
 
debates,
 
agreeing
 
on
 
nothing
 
except
 
the
 
belief
 
that
poor
 
people
 
should
 
have
 
no
 
say
 
in
 
their
 
government. Victoria
 
was
 
unable
 
to
 
accomplish
 
much
 
as
 
he
 
could
 
not
 
fix
 
Mexico’s
badly
 
damaged
 
economy. But
 
Victoria
 
finished
 
his
 
term
 
as
 
president,
 
something
 
that
 
no
 
one
 
else
 
did
 
for
 
over
 
20
 
years. In
 
1828
 
there
 
was
 
a
 
very
 
close
 
election
 
in
 
which
 
General
 
Manuel
 
Gomez
 
Pedraza
 
narrowly
 
won
 
over
 
General
Vicente
 
Guerrero. Rather
 
than
 
accept
 
defeat,
 
Guerrero
 
used
 
the
 
military
 
to
 
overthrow
 
Pedraza
 
and
 
take
 
power.