Hecho en Mexico 1821 T-Shirt

By the early 19th century, Mexico's middle class had grown tired of sharing their wealth with Spain, and calls for independence began to grow. The Independence movement was launched by two priests, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, and José María Morelos. These men stood up to Spain with a handful of men freed from Spanish imprisonment in 1810, but grew them to over 100,000 in a matter of days, and their numbers only grew from there as they took back cities from the Spanish. Hidalgo was executed in 1811, and Morelos in 1815, but the movement was only strengthened as a result. On September 28, 1821, the first independent government was named, just over a decade after it began, but was followed by thirty years of great political turmoil.