Historia de mexico

The Bourbon Reform and its Effect on Society

The Bourbon Reforms were protocols and rules that where to be followed by the all individuals of the New World. The third Bourbon King of Spain,Charles the III (1759-1788), hosted important reforms in New Spain. According to the Bourbon King, these reforms were to be needed in order to modernize New Spain. The way to do this was by high taxation,and more direct military control. To outcome those changes, the government reorganized the political structure in New Spain in twelve intendencias, each controlled by an intendente general in MexicoCity who was independent of the Viceroy and reported directly to the king. These improvements also were designed to limiting the power of the Catholic Church, and limiting power to the Criollo elites,and largely unification of political and economic interest to the progress of Spain. The Bourbon Reform was the finalization of the monopoly
The Bourbon reforms came to New Spain to change allcharacters of the country, by reviewing governmental and economic structures. The reforms also encouraged renewed migration of Spaniards to the colonies to occupy newly shaped government and militarypositions. Commerce, both legal and illegal, was growing, and independent traders were also greeted. The new classes of miners and merchants were the real organizers of the successes of the reforms passedby the Bourbons.
Economic growth and a certain degree of political moderation in the 1700s gave growth to greater prospects of self-government by the colonists. Social stratification in New Spain,marked by differences between the rich and the poor and between criollos and peninsulares , however, worked to prevent the necessary social structure for a revolutionary responsibility, even though thepressures for a revolution continued to build. Peninsulares from all paces of life believed themselves superior to their American-born colleagues. In reaction to such discrimination, criollos...