THE POLITICAL DIVISION

OF NEW SPAIN IN
INTENDENCIES
TEAM: PAULA, HUMBERTO AND JARETH
Intendencies in New • AS PART OF THE BOURBOUN REFORMS KING
CHARLES CREATED 12 INTENDENCIES TO REPLACE
Spain OTHER MAJOR MAJORITIES AND JURIDISTATION.
 DIFICULTIES IN CONSOLIDATING A
NATIONAL PROJECT
• In 1821 the first Mexican government was established and it was called
junta. La junta’s responsibility was to transition from the viceroyalty of new
Spain into the first empire of Mexico.
SEPARATION OF TEXAS
The Texas Declaration of Independence was issued
during a revolution against the Mexican government
that began in October 1835 following a series of
government edicts including the dissolution of state
legislatures, disarmament of state militias, and
abolition of the Constitution of 1824.
THE FRENCH BLOCKADE OF
1838
• Mexico owed a great deal of money to
European nations, including France, and the
chaotic situation in the country seemed to
indicate that these debts would never be paid.
France, using the claims of its citizens as an
excuse, sent a fleet to Mexico in early 1838
and blockaded the main port of Veracruz.
Mexican-American war
• The Mexican-American War was a conflict between
the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846
to February 1848. Won by the Americans and damned
by its contemporary critics as expansionist, it resulted
in the U.S. gaining Mexican territory.