Chapter31 Part2 Flashcards
Independent Mexico experienced a succession of governments from
Monarchy. To a liberal reform movement
Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
He attempted to perpetuate his intermittent rule
What did benito juarez do?
He led the liberal reform and he aimed o limit the power of the military and the roman catholic church in Mexican society
La reforma
It curtailed the prerogatives of military priests and mil Italy litigates and it guaranteed universal male suffrage and other civil liberties such as freedom of speech and their things
What conservatism did la reforma challenge?
It challenged the mexican elites who led spiritd opposition it political social and economic reform people stayed bitterly divided and c
To lessen mexico financial woes what did Juarez choose to do
Suspend loan payments to the forming powers that led t o French British and Spanish intervention
How did people end up invading in Mexico
Napoleon iit provided especially persistent and intrusive. He attempts to end Mexican disorder gave resistant at Puebla he the. Set tens of thousands of trios to proclaim a Mexican empire
By the early twentieth century, what was Mexico.. And what did it lead to
It was a divided land that ultimately ended up in a revolution… Middle class Mexican s Jodi with peasants a d workers to overthrow the powerful ad violent efforts in Latin America
Profiro Diaz
He was the dictator at that TIME
The war in Mexico marked the first major..
It was the first major conflict in Latin America. It was an attempt to topple the grossly unequal system of land distribution where like 95 percent of the peasants were landless
What did the peasaNts n Mexico do?
The peasants became increasingly radical and they became armed with forces and started going with guirella tactics
Who did the lower classes follow?
They followed the revolutionary leaders Emiliano Zapata and Francisco Pancho Villa, charasmatic agrarian rebels who organized massive armies fighting fr tierra y libertad
What is tierra y libertad
land and liberty, which were Zapata’s revolutionary goa
What was Zapata’s background?
he was the son of a mestizo peasant and Villa, was the son of a field worker
what did each reformer do?
Zapata confiscated hacienda lands and began distributing hte lands to tehe peasants while Villa attacked and killed US citizens
Despite the popularity enjoyed by Zapata and Villa, what were they unable to do?
Capture mexco’s major cities and they did not command the resources and weath to which government forces had access. The Mexican revolution came ot an end soon after
When did the Mexican Revolution come to an end..and why?
after government forces ambushed nad killed Zaputa while driving in the twon of Hidalogo de Parral, his car and body was riddled with bullets.
What was the Mexican constitution
Of 1917, had already addressed some of the concerns of the revolutionaries by providing for land redistribution, universal suffrange, state supported education
Underpinning the economic developmen tof the AMericas was the what?
Mass migration of European and Asian peoples to the United State, Canada,and Latin Ameirca.
What were some reasons that people migrated to the United States?
Because they wanted gold…and other things
Outnumbering gold prospectors were millions of European and Asian migrants who made thier way to the…
railroad construction sites, factories and plantations. Others who offered support to new migrant workers and gave them ore comfort and at the same time transformed the ethic and cultural landscape of the Americas
After the mid ninteenth century, European Migrants flocked to North America, where they filled the what?
Factories and growing industrial economy of the United States
Why were migrants atractive to industrialists?
Because they were seeking workers to operate machinery or perform labor at low wages.
in 1850, how many European migrants were in the United States
2.3 million
