Latin America: Mexican Revolution

Question 1

Date Porfirio Diaz came to power?

Answer 1

1876

Question 2

Cientifico fact

Answer 2

-In 1903, Diaz nominated a Cientifico as his vice-president

Question 3

Authoritarian facts about Diaz

Answer 3

-1908 interview ith Creelman he claimed he wouldn’t stand for president again

Question 4

Economic pre-revolution facts

Answer 4

• Economic crisis in 1903

- By 1910 real wages were a quarter of what they were a century before

Question 5

Social conditions pre-revolution

Answer 5

-high infant mortality, 30% of live births

Question 6

Urban discontent pre-revolution

Answer 6

-Cananea copper mine strike and Rio Blanco textile meills strike

Question 7

US and foreign dominance over society fact

Answer 7

-According to Ruiz, Mexico pretty much an economic colony of US by 1900

Question 8

-Failure of Madero

Answer 8

• first cabinet made up of many cientifico sympathisers

- Led to Zapata’s plan de Ayala in 1911

Question 9

Imapct of mexican rev on women

Answer 9

• Soldaderas
• women only got the vote in 1953
• Constitution of 1917 gave some rights to women

Question 10

PRI formed?

Answer 10

1929

Question 11

Calles in power?

Answer 11

1924-28

Question 12

Maximato?

Answer 12

1924-34

Question 13

Huerta govt?

Answer 13

1913-15

Question 14

Carranza government?

Answer 14

1917-20

Question 15

Obregon in power?

Answer 15

1920-24

Question 16

Historians

Answer 16

• Alan Knight and Tenebbaum have agrarian argument for cause
• Guerra has political reading for cause

Question 17

Cardenismo agrarian reform

Answer 17

redistributed 40millon hectares of land to 810,000 peasants