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Presentation Mexican Revolution
Presentation Mexican Revolution
Presentation Mexican Revolution
● Europeans
○ They were working with President Diaz and making
sure they had some control over their government
● USA
○ Were also making deals with President Diaz but so
they would make profit from the products the
Mexican workers were creating while working
● President Diaz
○ Thought that if he was to appease to foreign
countries by letting them have some control over his
country, he would be making peace with them and
his people
○ While he worked on implementing a capitalist
society building factories, dams, and roads the rural
workers and peasants suffered greatly.
○ Díaz allocated land, once belonging to the people
of Mexico, to wealthy non-nationals
○ Wealthy Landowners and Industrialists-benefited
Pre- revolution: Privileged v. Non-
Privileged
Non-privileged Groups
- Corrupt Mexican dictator whose presidency spanned over the course of 30 years.
- His principle objective: to modernize the country with industrialization
-power was concentrated in the hands of a select few; the people had no power to
express their opinions or select their public officials.
-censorship, no democracy, and prejudice against campesinos and rural peasants.
Francisco Madero:
-of mixed Spanish and Nahua descent, he symbolized -Leader of Northern Mexico, the “archetype of the
the rural south of Mexico social bandit.
-Their insurgent drive was rooted in hunger, poverty,
-witnessed the encroachment of the neighboring sugar
and demeaning social status
plantations onto the land of his community
-wanted to raise themselves socially and economically.
-became the leader of landless peasants, the Zapatistas -wanted jobs, not small pots of land, called for the
(as they became known)since Madero did not advocate confiscation of large haciendas that exploited peasants.
for land reform -Village campesinos in revolt.
Before the Revolution
● Racism
○ Indians were looked at as the reason why Mexico wasn’t working properly
● Modernization
○ The U.S was forcing Mexico to adapt to their ways of working
○ Mexicans were being “taught” about the new ways of how they would be working
● Working conditions/ wages
○ Mexicans weren’t getting even pay with the Americans
○ They were working in poor conditions
○ Were abused while they were working by the Europeans
● Government
○ President Diaz was a dictator that was working against his people when he had an idea that he was
working for them
○ Mexicans didn’t really have a say in how their government was working
What changed because of the revolution?