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  • Unit 3
    • 3.1.1-Global Trade Routes>
      • Case Study : Silk Road>
        • Luxury Goods
        • Technology
        • Impact of Commercial Practices on Trade
        • Growth through State Practices
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 3.1.2- Trading Cities>
      • Overview
      • Casy Study: Baghdad
      • Final Summary
    • 3.1.3- Expansion of Islam>
      • Origins
      • Belief System/ Values
      • Expansion through Afro-Eurasia
      • Case Study
    • 3.1.4- Inter-regional Travelers>
      • Marco Polo
      • Ibn Battuta
      • Xuanzang
    • 3.1.5- Inter-regional Culture>
      • Overview
      • Case Study:>
        • Cultural Traditions
        • Conclusion
      • Literature
      • Art
    • 3.1.6- Spreading Tech.>
      • Spreading of Technology in Europe
      • Spreading of Technology in Asia
      • Spreading of Technology in Africa
      • Case Study
      • Conclusion and Analysis>
        • Citations
    • 3.1.7- Changes from Contact & Conflict>
      • Case Study
      • Causes and Changes from conflict
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
  • Unit 4
    • 4.1.1- Impact of Tools on Trade/Travel>
      • Trade
      • Travel
      • Case Study: Europe
      • Case Study: China
    • 4.1.2 Maritime Reconnaissance>
      • Ming China - Casey
      • Northern Europe - Tyler
      • Portuguese - Jan
      • Spain - Ian
    • 4.1.4 - Columbian Exhcange (Basic Gist)>
      • Case Study: Food
      • Case Study: Disease
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 4.1.3 World Economies (1450-1750)>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 4.1.5. Effects of gov. revenue on art/literature>
      • Intro
      • Art
      • Literature
      • Conclusion
    • 4.2.3. Forced Migration of Africans >
      • Causes
      • Effects
      • Developments
  • Unit 5
    • 5.3.1. U.S. vs. Latin American Revolutions>
      • Overview
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 5.3.2. French Revolution>
      • Cause
      • Effects
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 5.3.2. Mexican Revolution>
      • M.R. - Causes
      • M.R. - Effects
      • M.R. - AGMSPRITE
    • 5.3.2. Haitian Revolution>
      • Haitian Revolution
      • Causes
      • Effects
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 5.3.3 Intro (Group 1)>
      • Nationalism
      • The development of nation states
      • Movements of political reform
      • Conclusion
    • 5.3.4 Compairing Democracy >
      • Revolutions
      • Nationalism
      • AGMSPRITE Conclusion
    • 5.3.5. Impact of Enlightenment (Despots)>
      • Social
      • Political
      • Case Study
  • Unit 6
    • The Impact of World War II>
      • The Women's Movement& The Depression
      • Uses of New Tech& Loss of Human Life
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • Keynesian economics over time>
      • Case Study: post-war America
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 6.1.2 - World Economic Developments - courtney>
      • Economic Globilization: Factors & Effects
      • Latin America: Causes & Effects
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 6.1.2 Patterns of Nationalism>
      • Impact of Communism/Case Study
      • Russian & Chinese Revolutions
      • Effects of World Wars
      • AGMSPRITE
    • Globalization of Science, Culture, and Tech.>
      • Science
      • Culture
      • Technology
      • AGMSPRITE
    • Revolutions' Effects on Women>
      • Case Study: Russia
      • Conclusion-Then and Now
    • Demographic and environmental changes>
      • Case study: Darfur
      • Case Study: Rwandan Genocide
      • Technology's effect on the environment
      • AGMSPRITE

Mexican Revolution

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Emiliano Zapato
Being one of the longest revolutions in the colonial era, the Mexican Revolution lasted almost twenty years. From 1910 to 1930, people of all socioeconomic classes were fighting to overthrow the incumbent President Porfirio Diaz. Clearly, the dictator's tight clampdown on dissent, protest, and anyone who challenged his power provided a major motivation for change. Even some of the upper and middle class citizens sought to gain more political power so their opinions would be adequately heard, while the working poor wanted better social services and working conditions. Income inequality and powerful landowning men ensured that  almost the entirety of Mexico was controlled by just a few thousand people.  This situation contrasted with that of the United States' mainly because it involved many disparate groups often conflicting each other's goals, while American revolutionaries presented a unified front to counter British rule. 

Mexico's Revolution differed from other American revolutions mostly because its tumultuous changes were hindered by factions that developed within the general population, diminishing its ability to quickly cast aside an incompetent ruler. In contrast to the typical large colonial power breaking away from its mother country, Mexico had to fight through a divisive period that made it very difficult to decide on a new leadership. For example, Emiliano Zapata's de facto position as the opposition leader was never fully recognized by a majority of the population, since so many sides existed within the country. During the 1910's the situation had essentially devolved into outright civil war, with no clear leader to unite Mexico into a stable political system.  Thus, it took many years for a new government and constitution to take hold in this environment.


In all of the Atlantic Revolutions that occurred, it was Mexico's that had the greatest impact on the region and world.  It was Spain's prize colony and   spurred a significant reversal of power once its native population took power into its own hands. Similarly to the United States, its huge population provided the foundation for uprising, but the more conducive conditions in America led to a more successful revolutionary government. The fractured state in which Mexico's new government emerged ultimately doomed its existence, and many successive constitutions have replaced the original revolutionary one.

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