Mexican Independence and U.S. Relations

• The fight for Mexican independence (peasants versus ruling class)

• Compare and contrast the constitutions of Mexico and the United States

• Slavery, Texas revolution, and changing attitudes concerning Tejano elites

• How the Mexican American war begins to define “the Mexican”

1, 2B, 3A, 3B, 6B, 9B, 9C, 12, 13