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: Annoyed
 
at
 
criticism
 
in
 
the
 
newspapers,
 
Iturbide
 
shut
 
them
down. Congressmen
 
then
 
planned
 
on
 
overthrowing
 
Iturbide,
 
and
 
he
 
placed
 
several
 
leaders
 
in
 
jail,
 
and
 
then
 
dissolved
Congress
 
and
 
set
 
up
 
a
 
military
 
government. Fearing
 
a
 
dictatorship,
 
Mexicans
 
rebelled
 
and
 
were
 
led
 
by
 
a
 
General
 
from
Veracruz
 
named
 
Antonio
 
Lopez
 
de
 
Santa
 
Anna. Iturbide
 
left
 
Mexico,
 
but
 
unaware
 
that
 
congress
 
condemned
 
him
 
to
 
die,
Iturbide
 
came
 
back
 
a
 
year
 
later. He
 
was
 
tried
 
and
 
then
 
executed
 
by
 
firing
 
squad. 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.