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The “Cry of Independence”, attributed to the priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in the town of Dolores, located in the Guanajuato. Beginning of the independence movement.
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It is “established that the Mexican Nation is forever free and independent from the Spanish government and from any other power” (Article 1).
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Changed the slavery debate. It almost doubled the size of the United States and began a debate, between Northerners and Southerners, over what to do with the newly acquired land.
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This was a civil conflict that took place in Mexico, the free faced conservatives.
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Juárez always defended equality, freedom, legality and democracy. Benito Juárez legislated so that the education of Mexicans was free, compulsory and secular.
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Armed movement against the government of General Porfirio Díaz, who governed the country for more than thirty years.
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Was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history".