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The Mexican Revolution

Pt. 3

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Ideas of the Revolution

  • People who were in the middle class wanted more political power
  • Land reform, land was being taken away from the Lower class
  • Since the Spanish took Mexico before the revolution they brought Christianism with them. The biggest religion is Roman Catholic

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Before

  • Constitution of 1917, still in force almost 100 years later

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  • The land taken from the peasantry during the porfiriato (when Porfirio Diaz was president) had to be returned, even if they didn't have any written titles

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Effects of the Revolution

Mining, industrial and agricultural production stopped during the war. Mexico had a far greater struggle to agree on a well working government, which took up a lot of the people’s time and effort, causing Mexico to fall behind economically and intellectually.

The Mexican revolution could have turned out to be as successful as the American Revolution, but the Mexicans were incapable of establishing a good government in time, which led to their eventual downfall of a nation that could have been great and flourishing.

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The end of the revolution

The weakness of the Mexican revolution was the weakness of a peasant revolution. The peasantry was strong enough to overthrow the existing order, but not to put its decisive stamp upon Mexico’s historical destiny.

It destroyed the power of the old corrupt oligarchy that had misruled Mexico for decades. It laid the basis for a further development of capitalism and industrialisation, and therefore for the creation of the mighty Mexican proletariat. But ultimately, the revolution remained incomplete, unfinished and botched.

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Casualties

1,500,000 people died during the revolution, and 200,000 fled abroad mostly to the U.S.

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