Zapata

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Zapata
Zapata As early as 1911, Emiliano Zapata
(1879-1919), an Indian farmer, had led a peasant
revolt against the haciendas in southern Mexico.
For several years, Zapata and his band
periodically came down from the mountains, burned
hacienda buildings, and returned land to the
Indian villages to which it had once belonged.
Zapata enjoyed tremendous popular support but
could never rise above his peasant origins and
lead a national revolution. In this photo he
stands in full revolutionary regalia sword,
rifles, bandoleers, boots, and sombrero.
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Roots of the Great Depression

• In Germany
• War reparations payments
• Loss labor, factories, farmland
• Versailles restrictions
• High tariffs on trade
• In rest of the world
• High tariffs on trade
• Dependency status
• Boom bust economies

• In the US
• Massive consumerism
• Defaulting on credit
• High tariffs on trade
• In Europe
• High tariffs on trade
• War debts to US
• Loss of labor, factories, farmland