Plan Of Iguala Analysis

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The Plan of Iguala liberated the Mexican colony from Spanish control and brought many social, economic, and political changes to the people of the region. Of these changes, the most important social, economic, and political transformations were.
Firstly, the plan, to set up a new way of how Mexico will work rather than Spain controlling it. This will change society because of how the people will have to follow the new government. “ The government shall be a constitutional monarchy “, they are concluding that there will still be Kings and Queens which doesn’t make sense because they were trying to get rid of them at first. They didn’t like how they were ruled by them yet they are bringing it back. I think their idea was just to have things their

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