The Mexican Revolution

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The Mexican Revolution

• Major Players and Major Painters
• Hannah Hultine and Mike Brooder

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 Maderos (Be la Barras)
  treatment of land reform

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February 18, 1913

• Commander of armed forces Victoriano Huerta
  staged coup detat
• Madero forced to resign, executed four days later
• Pancho Villa sentenced to death, but fled to U.S.

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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

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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

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Artists of the Mexican Revolution
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Mariano Azuela
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Frida Kahlo

• Born three years after beginning of revolution
• Mexican national pride
• Rejected surrealist label

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Diego Rivera
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Jose Guadalupe Posada
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