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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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