Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution

Mexico and Spain

Ruler Prior to the Revolution:

Revolutionary Leaders

Francisco Madero: After becoming the president Porfirio Diaz did not want to give up being the president himself, so he imprisoned Francisco.

Emiliano Zapata: He is a well known indian society leader that runs the central state of Morelos and later gets assassinated in 1919

Pancho Villa: Leader of forces of North who was defeated in around May 1915.

Venustiano Carranza: He was a political leader of the renewed revolutionary effort and also known for calling upon the election of deputies to join a constitutional convention.

Victoriano Huerta: He is the leader of the federal army that was left intact from one of the presidents known as Francisco Madero, who was executed by Victoriano.

Dates of the Revolution

1893: Victor Ochoa released a revolutionary movement on Porfirio Diaz.

1910: Francisco Madero runs against Diaz in Mexico's first free elections

1911: Along with Zapata, Villa, and Orozco, Madero revolts against Diaz again

1911: Madero becomes President of Mexico.

1913: Madero is murdered by General Victoriano Huerta, who becomes president

1915: Zapatistas carry out Agrarian reforms in Morelos

1920: Alvaro Obregon along with the Zapatistas, Villistas, and other revolutionary groups overthrow and kill Carranza. Obregon becomes President of Mexico. and all the fighting stops.

Reasons For The Revolution/

Conditions of the Country before Revolution

The Creole population was always denied the access to the privileged government positions that were only qualified for people of spain.

People from spain came to rule the colonies and not anyone else.

The creoles hated the Spanish and wanted to free the colonies in order assume the privileges that the Spanish government held.

A law established by the Spanish government in 1804, led to many controversies because it attempted to raise royal values. Called “Consolidación de Vales Reales”.

Conditions After

Cardenas was later elected President of Mexico which really benefited the country.

He was smart enough nationalize Mexico’ soil deposits during presidency.

His major projects included building roads and schools and developing irrigation projects for Mexican people helped them arise from their slumps.

He was also passionate about social progress and spent much of his time gathering peasant farmers, laborers, and students into a united front and was very successful.

Major Events During the Revolution

Revolution began in a 3 part war:

1st. Mixed blood or American Indians revolted under leadership of hidalgo

2nd. Guerrilla war against the colonial authorities.

3rd. Creoles (full-blooded Spaniards born in America) against a temporarily liberal Spanish government.

Hidalgo gave the speech “Grito de Dolores” in September 16, 1810 to motivate the Mexican people.

Hidalgo declared the restoration of Indian lands to their communities and the abolition of taxes in Guadalajara. It was around July 5, 1811.

In consultation with Guerrero, he issued the “Plan de Iguala”, which declared Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy, gave Catholicism a monopoly on religion, and guaranteed equal treatment for creoles and Spaniards.

In 1916, Carranza issued a call for the election of deputies to a constitutional convention in Querétaro on December 1, 1916. It included

(Huerta, villa, Zapata, Carranza). These men produced the Constitution of 1917, which became the founding document of the new Mexican nation.

Other Important Facts

Many of these mestizos and Indians had the thought they were fighting for the Virgin of Guadalupe against the white devils.

Iturbide's September, 1821 victory march through Mexico City told the end of their war for independence that began as a radical lower-class movement which ended In a declaration of independence.

Francisco Madero was elected president in 1910 but was put in prison by Diaz, who did not want to give up his position.

Zapata, Pancho Villa, and general Venustiano Carranza renewed the revolutionary effort. Carranza as the political leader.

Comparisons Between Brazil and Mexico

Camin, Hector Aguilar and Meyer, Lorenzo. In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution:

Contemporary Mexican History 1910-1989. Austin: University of Texas Press, Austin

DeWalt, Billie R. Modernization in the Mexican Ejido. New York: The Cambridge University Press, 1979

Gonzalez, Michael J. The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1914. New Mexico: The

University of New Mexico Press, 2002

by: Andy Do, Josue Rodriguez, Xavier Bauer, Michael Joseph

Period 5

Josue in a sombrero

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The ruler is Porfirio Díaz

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Countries Involved

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Individual citizens, rather than Portuguese officials or companies, were given the

task of establishing the colony of Brazil

Both Mexicans and Brazilians were told they could not get any government jobs. Only “pure breeds” were given the right to claim ownership of colonies.

Mexico gained independence from Spain and Brazil gained independence from Portugal.

Both countries came in looking for ways to make colonies and grow their empires.

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Work Cited

"Mexican Revolt of 1810." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2013. Web. 1 Feb. 2013.

"Mexican Revolution of 1910." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 2 Feb. 2012.

"Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla." World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2013. Web. 2 Feb. 2013.

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