"My children: a new dispensation comes to us today. Will you receive it? Will you free yourselves? Will you recover the lands stolen three hundred years ago from your forefathers by the hated Spaniards? We must act at once… Will not you defend your religion and your rights as true patriots? Long live our Lady of Guadalupe! Death to bad government! Death to the gachupines!"
Father Hidalgo
"El Grito de Dolores" speech
What is the main idea of Father Hidalgo's famous speech?
Question 9 options:
a)
That Mexico should remain under Napoleon
b)
That Mexico should revolt against Napoleon
c)
That Mexico should remain under Spain's rule
d)
That Mexico should revolt against Spain