Dr. A. Lauria-Santiago
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Questions for class discussion of readings this week:

1. How would you describe Colonial society in New Spain during the early 1800s?
2. What were the origins of the peasant movements that affected central New Spain during the 1810s?  what relation did they have with the achievement of Mexican independence?
3. How did the crisis of the Spanish Crown affect these forces and conditions?
4. What role did elite and middle-sectors have in the attainment of Independence in Mexico?
5. Why did Mexico achieve independence as a with the appearance of a "conservative" empire?
6. What were the immediate effects of Mexico's declaration of Independence?
7. What forces inherited from the Colonial period and the transition to independence shape the first years of Mexico's life as an independent state?
8. Why did Iturbide's empire fail?