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The Mexican Revolution
 What were reasons for the
Mexican Revolution?
The Porfiriato (1876-1911)
 #1 Porfirio Diaz
Pan
O  Pres who industrializes Mexico by encouraging
Palo foreign investment (esp. US)
 Helps rich & church, little to help poor & Indians
Exiled
 Becomes a dictator by fixing election
 1910: Has his opponent for the presidency
Francisco Madero jailed!
•Madero escapes & starts Mexican Revolution.
•1911: Madero helped by Emiliano Zapata &
Pancho Villa, Diaz overthrown & goes into exile
VQ1: What were Villa’s tactics?
VQ2: Why was it tough for
revolutionaries & how did they survive?
VQ3: What problems happen after Diaz
is overthrown?
Mexican Revolution: Madero & Huerta (1911-1915)
•1911: #2 Francisco Madero is now President
•Emiliano Zapata wants land reform (take land away from foreigners &
wealthy and give it to peasants) Madero rejects idea
•Zapata issues Plan de Ayala (remove Madero/enact land reform)
•Pancho Villa arrested by Gen. Victoriano Huerta, Villa to be executed
•Madero stops execution, Villa escapes from prison
•1913: #3 Gen Huerta overthrows Madero, has Madero executed
•Huerta runs country as a military dictatorship
Executed
Tierra y
Libertad
Mexican Revolution: Carranza (1915-1920)
- Villa returns, joins forces w/ Zapata & Gen. Venustiano Carranza
- Huerta flees into exile – Villa & Carranza both want to be Pres
- 1915: US backs #4 Carranza, Villa upset at US robs & kills Americans
in New Mexico
- Carranza allows US to send 5K troops under Gen. “Blackjack”
Pershing into Mexico, Villa never caught
-Zapata upset Carranza won’t enact Plan de Ayala, Zapata is tricked by
Carranza supporter & killed
-1920:Carranza tries to fix election, killed by supporter of Alvaro Obregon
Exiled
Assassinated
Assassinated
Mexican Revolution: Obregon (1920-1924)
-1920: #5 Alvaro Obregon wins next election
-Villa given amnesty by Obregon but Villa is assassinated 3 years later,
Obregon leaves office, new President is Plutarco Calles (#6)
-Calles leaves after four years, Obregon runs again, wins and killed
Pancho Villa: Outlaw Hero
VQ1. How did Villa live after the revolution?
VQ2. What is his legacy (describe if he is a hero or villain)?
Assassinated
Assassinated