The Mexican Revolution (collective work) (edit title/settings)

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• Porfirio Díaz: (1830-1915) Life-time President of Mexico. His reluctance to find a way where he could be succeeded peacefully precipitated the Revolution.
• Francisco Madero: (1873-1913) Ran for President against Diaz in 1910. Claiming fraud, he called for violent revolution in November 1910. His supporters drove Porfirio Díaz from office. He was elected President of Mexico in October 1911. In February 1913, a right-wing coup d’etat over-threw him, and he was murdered shortly thereafter.
• Pascual Orozco: (1882-1915) Muleteer before the Revolution, he became an early military leader of Madero’s rebel forces in Chihuahua. His successes in Chihuahua caused the toppling of the Diaz government in 1911. In 1912, he became disillusioned with Madero, and started a rebellion against him. While initially successful, his forces were defeated by Madero’s Federal General Victoriano Huerta. He continued to fight as a guerrilla leader against Madero’s government. When Madero was deposed in 1913 by General Huerta, Orozco joined the new Huerta government. He and his supporters fought the forces of Poncho Villa. When Huerta’s government collapsed in 1914, Orozco fled to the United States. While in the United States, he conspired with Huerta to initiate a new rebellion to overthrow the new Carranza government. In 1915 he was arrested by the American government for violating American neutrally laws. He was imprisoned briefly, but managed to affect an escape. He was subsequently gunned down by a posse of Texas Rangers who said they believed him to be a common horse thief.
• Francisco ‘Pancho’ Villa: (1878-1923) From obscurity, he rose to prominence during the Madero revolt of 1910-1911 as a supporter of Francisco Madero. He achieved his greatest fame after the death of Madero when he joined the Constitutionalist rebels to remove Victoriano Huerta from power in 1914. As commander of the Division of the North, Villa achieved spectacular victories against Federal forces and caused the collapse of the Huerta government. The victorious Constitutional forces then split into two factions: one faction favored the continued leadership of Venustiano Carranza; the other faction favored his removal from leadership. Pancho Villa became the leader of the forces opposed to Carranza’s continued leadership. In the spring of 1915, Villa’s forces were defeated by Carranza’s General Alvaro Obregón. Villa continued to fight as a guerrilla leader against Carranza’s government until 1920 when Obregón drove Carranza from office. With Carranza removed, Villa retired from public life, but in 1923 he was assassinated under suspicious circumstances.

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• “Hence, the thumbnail portrait of the mestizo <as> the rootless, macho, power-hungry mestizo, relegated to the edges of society, belonging to a social shadow world, prone to drink, fantasy and gambling, is at best a crude national stereotype, of dubious validity.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Chihuahua

Organizations edit see section history

• Mexican Federal Army: Add a description of this organization.

First Sentence edit see section history

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Glossary edit see section history

• Alcalde: Mayor
• Barranca: Gorge
• Barrio: Neighborhood
• Caciquismo: Boss system of politics
• Campesino: Peasantry, rural laborers
• Caudillo: Political leader based on armed clientele
• Charro: Mexican horseman; the type of dress worn by a Mexican horseman
• Compadre: One chosen to be the god-parent of your child; by extension, a very close friend.
• Ejido: Land corporately owned by the community; the village farm land
• Gachupin: Spaniard (pejorative)
• Gente: People
• Gente decente: Respectable people, the middle and upper class
• Gobernacion: Cabinet position equivalent to the English Home Secretary
• Hacienda: Rural estate
• Huaraches: Scandals; peasant footwear
• Jefe: Boss or Leader
• Jefe Politico: Political boss
• Leva: Press-gang
• Macho: Aggressively male; violent, proud, generally unpleasant
• Maquina loca: Driverless locomotive used as an offensive weapon
• Mestizo: Of mixed Spanish-Indian blood
• Mordida: Bribe. Literally, a small bite
• Patria Chica: ‘Little Fatherland’; the local region eliciting patriotic allegiance
• Patron: Important boss
• Peon: Rural laborer
• Rurales: Rural police force

Series & Lists edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Alan Knight (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Albert J. Beveridge Award (1986)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: F1234 .K65 1986 v.1
• Dewey: 972.0816

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › History › Americas › Mexico
• Books › History › Historical Study › Revolutionary
• Books › History › World › 20th Century

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Barnes and Noble review

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