Santa
Ana Takes Power
–Santa Ana was the Mexican general who seized power after the collapse of the Mexican republic in 1835.
–He was
a typical caudillo and the
defects of his regime drew foreign intervention by Spain and France.
•Conservative centralists opposed liberal
federalists and
foreign commercial agents made matters worse.
•Liberals during the early 1830s tried
sweeping reforms,
but they fell before a conservative reaction led by Antonio López de Santa Ana.
