3. Political, economic, and social inequalities in Mexico led to a period of revolution and reform.

4. Benito Juárez
1858 –1872

5. Benito Juarez Zapotec Indian Abraham Lincoln of Mexico La Reforma
Resistance against French occupation
Cinco de Mayo

6. Porfirio Díaz

7. Porfirio Diaz
One of Juarez generals
Juarez dies 1872
Diaz assumes dictatorship
Rules until 1911
Reduces country to foreign dependency

8. Outbreak of the Mexican Revolution 1911-1921
Diaz calls for elections
Francisco Madero elected president
1915 Madero assassinated

10. Dictatorship of Victorinao Huerta
Non-recognition and intervention by United States
Woodrow Wilson

13. A Triple Alliance against Huerta
Venustacio Carranza represents the Middle Class

14. Francisco “Pancho” Villa
represents Mestizos of the North
Controversial
Defies U.S.
Very popular

16. Emiliano Zapata
Leader of Indian South
His battle cry was “Tierra y Libertad”

18. A revolution of violence and terror
Attacks on the church
All major leaders die
Alvaro Obregon brings stability

19. Alvaro Obregon

23. 1930s Lazaro Cardenas
Reforming president
Land redistribution
Nationalization of oil industry
Benefits from “Good Neighbor Policy”

25. The Rise of P.R.I.
Coalition between upper and middle classes
P.R.I. Wins every presidential election between 1929 and 2000
Single party-capitalist system