Midterm Flashcards
EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation)
a political and military group that controls Chiapas, they protested Nafta, and wanted to get rid of white people.
PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional)
A Mexican Political Party that was in power for 71 years (1929-2000)
Plan de Ayala
“Tierra y libertad” it was a document written by Emiliano Zapata and it was a land reform and freedom during the Mexican Revolution.
Plan de San Luis Potosi
it was a political document written by Madero. It was for nullifying the election (1910) of Diaz, Madero for president, and Mexicans to revolt.
Toussaint L’ouverture
He was a Haitian man and a free slave, that became the leader of the Haitian Revolution in 1791
Battle of Ayacucho (1824)
It was part of the Peruvian Independence. It secured the independence of Peru and ensure the independence for the rest of SA.
Alvaro Obregon
He was a general in the Mexican rev and became president 1920-24.
Lazaro Cardenas
He ran for president in 1934-40, he wanted to stop all the killings, and to get rid of Jefe Maximo. He promised reforms: land reform, unions, nationalism.
Miguel Hidalgo
He was a leader of the Mexican rev. He lived in Dolores and he raised an army of thousands of people to start the revolution.
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
Founder of PRD, Party of the Democratic Rev
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Was the most famous of Mexico’s caudillos,
Jose de San Martin
Argentine Revolutionary, he helped the revolutions against the Spanish in Argentina, Chile and Peru.
La Reforma
it was a list of reforms created by liberals in 1854, they wanted to remake the laws and change them to liberal principles.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
He became president in 1833, he was in lead when the Mexican war happened with the US, about land.
Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui Tupac Amaru
He was the leader of an uprising against the Spanish in Peru, which caused him his death. 1781
