Abstract

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This article presents information on the history of Mexico. Mexico's history is particularly full of the bigotry of the church. It is a curious and often-forgotten fact that Mexico owes her independent existence to her reactionary church. The rich and powerful bishops who controlled Mexico a century ago crushed in blood the popular uprisings led by the parish priests Hidalgo and Morelos from 1810 to 1815; but when Spain herself turned liberal and adopted a potentially anti-clerical constitution they feared for their own dominating position and in 1820 sponsored a new independence movement which of course succeeded. Mexico's first revolution was a revolution to save the established church and the large estates, in opposition to religious toleration.