1. The Mexican Revolution
What were reasons for the Mexican Revolution?

2. Exiled The Porfiriato (1876-1911) #1 Porfirio Diaz Pan
O Palo
#1 Porfirio Diaz
Pres who industrializes Mexico by encouraging foreign investment (esp. US)
Helps rich & church, little to help poor & Indians
Becomes a dictator by fixing election
Exiled
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?

3. 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
Pedro Lascurain (45mins)
Tierra y Libertad

4. 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
Assassinated
Assassinated
Exiled
After Huerta, Francisco Carvajal 1 month
Gen Pablo Gonzalez men ambush Zapata

5. 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