Early National Period-1

EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD AFTERMATH OF INDEPENDENCE YEARS OF FIGHTING – HIGH PRICE ON NEWLY CREATED STATES VIOLENCE INCREASED MILITARIZATION ARMED MILITIA – POWER CONTENDERS ADDED ECONOMIC BURDEN – DEBTS ABOLITION OF SLAVERY EMANCIPATED SLAVES NOT RECOGNIZED AS EQUALS URBAN ELITES MORE CONCERNED WITH THEIR OWN SOCIAL POSITION [MERCHANTS, MAGISTRATES, AND BUREAUCRATS] AREAS OF LARGE NATIVE COMMUNITIES – MEXICO, GUATEMALA, AND ANDES SURVIVED WITH LITTLE CHANGES INTERNAL MARKETS WEAK – INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES SELFSUFFICIENT RURAL LANDOWNERS PRESENTED CHALLENGES TO URBAN ELITES RIVALRIES – CAPITAL CITIES AND PROVINCIAL CAPITALS COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES LACK OF ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION NEW NATIONS – UNABLE TO UNITE CHAOS IN GOVERNMENT, INSTABILITY, DISORDER CONTRIBUTED TO IMAGE OF WEAKNESS – IMAGE OF LATIN AMERICA AS WEAK STARTED THEN CAPTAINS, MILITARY LEADERS – NOT PREPARED FOR TASK OF GOVERNMENT POLITICAL IDEAS WERE DOGMATIC LOCAL INTERESTS MORE ATTENTION THAN NATIONAL CONCERNS VIEWS OF POWER AND AUTHORITY PREVAILED CAUDILLOS