write:When the wars ofindependence ended in 1821 Agustín de Iturbide a Creole who hadled the Mexican army against Spain issued the Plan de Iguala toestablish order and create a coali

mestizos (people of mixed Indian and Spanish ancestry)
peninsulars (those born in Spain)
and Creoles (people of “pure”Spanish ancestry born in the Americas). When the wars ofindependence ended in 1821
Agustín de Iturbide
a Creole who hadled the Mexican army against Spain
issued the Plan de Iguala toestablish order and create a coalition of the various institutions andsocial groups in Mexico (Document 3). Iturbide soon established aMexican empire and proclaimed himself its ruler
Agustín I.In 1823
two years aer its founding
the Mexican empire failed
and Iturbide was forced to abdicate. A year later
the MexicanConstitution established the United States of Mexico as a federalrepublic comprising nineteen states and four territories (Document4). A fundamental difference between the United States and Mexicowas that the Mexican republic included Indians as citizens.Although similar to the U.S. Constitution
the Mexican Constitutionadopted a broader definition of citizenship
struggled directly withissues of social equality along racial and gender lines
addressed theinstitution of hereditary chattel slavery
and established few
if any
racial or property limitations on the right to hold public office.