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 | | There were no immigration quotas for Mexicans, but those who planned to stay in the United States had to present a visa, pay a head tax, and pass a literacy test at a border-crossing station-- all of which took time and money. |
 | | Mexico's struggle for independence against Spain began on the night of September 15/16, 1810 when a mild-mannered Creole priest, Father Miguel de Hidalgo y Castillo, published his famous outcry against tyranny from his parish in the village of Dolores. |
 | | Slidell was supposed to offer Mexico $25,000,000 to accept the Rio Grande boundary with Texas and to sell New Mexico, Arizona, and California to the U.S. However, the President of Mexico, preoccupied with internal dissension and suspicious of American intentions, refused to see Slidell. |
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