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Mexican Revolution 2
Mikey Thomson and Ryan Guglielmo
Term | Definition |
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hacienda | a large estate or plantation with a dwelling house. |
haciendado | the owner of a hacienda. |
mestizos | a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. |
pueblo | villages |
Porfirio Diaz | Dictator of Mexico that developed mining, oil drilling, and railways, in addition to increasing exports of raw agricultural products then fled to Paris which led to civil wars over succession. |
Creoles | Elites that was born white in Spanish america of Spanish parents. |
Nobles ruled how much of the land? | 25 percent |
95% of the peasantry owned how much land? | No land |
Foreign investors own how much land? | 25 percent |
Francisco "Pancho" Villa | Radical advocate for land reform, supported by farm workers, agricultural colonists, former soldiers, unemployed laborers, cowboys, and delinquents. |
Emiliano Zapata | Radical advocate for land reform, supported by farm workers, agricultural colonists, former soldiers, unemployed laborers, cowboys, and delinquents. Tried to return land to Indian Pueblos. |
General Victoriano Huerta | rose to presidency but was opposed by most leaders and was taken out of office by American President Woodrow Wilson. |
Venustiano Carranza | Commissioned the Mexican Constitution that promised land reform, restrictions on foreign economic control, labor laws (wage, hours, accident insurance, pensions, social benefits, restrictions on church and clergy and the right to unionize and strike. |
Labor Party | represented the labor movement |
National Agrarian Party | Represented the peasants |
Revolution death toll | 1 million people out of total population of 15 million. |