The Mexican Revolution

Major Players and Major PaintersHannah Hultine and Mike Brooder

Porfirio Diaz

• Joined militia to later study law

• Became liberal activist against Santa Ana government

• Gained popularity through leading Mexican cavalry to victories against the French

• Overthrew government of Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada

Porfirio Diaz

• Eventually amended constitution to lift restrictions on re-election

• Maintained power though manipulation of votes, violence and assassinations

• In attempts to modernize Mexico, allowed for growing split between upper and lower classes

• Allowed for blatant land theft

Francisco Madero

• Anti re-electionist who ran against Diaz in forced election of 1910

• Jailed by Diaz after gaining much popular support

• Escaped to Texas, issued Plan De San Luis Potosi

• Called for armed revolution at 6 p.m. on November 20, 1910

Entonces…

• Diaz resigned May 25, 1911 with the signing of the Treaty of Ciudad Juarez

• Diaz exiled to France, where he died in 1915

• Madero appointed Francisco Leon De la Barra as interim president

Pancho Villa(Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula)

• Educated by Abraham Gonzalez

• Turned away from early life of crime to pursue interests of Mexican people

• Assisted in overthrow of Diaz by gaining control of parts of Northern Mexico

Emiliano Zapata

• Campaigned for rights of villagers

• Grew frustrated with pace of politics and bias shown toward wealthy

• Began to forcefully take over plots of disputed land

• Displeased with Madero’s (Be la Barra’s) treatment of land reform

February 18, 1913

• Commander of armed forces Victoriano Huerta staged coup d’etat

• Madero forced to resign, executed four days later

• Pancho Villa sentenced to death, but fled to U.S.

Venustiano Carranza

• Formed constitution based faction and later gained control of the country

• Organized convention which drafted The Constitution of 1917

• Zapata pulled his support

• Zapata assassinated in 1919 by Col. Jesus Guajardo

Pancho… Otra vez

• Due to U.S. recognition of Carranza regime, led attack on Columbus, New Mexico

• Successfully evaded American and Mexican pursuers

• Assassinated in 1923 in Northern Mexico

Artists of the Mexican Revolution

Mariano Azuela

Frida Kahlo

• Born three years after beginning of revolution

• Mexican national pride

• Rejected surrealist label

Diego Rivera

Jose Guadalupe Posada

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