Question | Answer |
Conservative intellectual and advisor to Santa Anna in 1853 whose death removed a moderating influence | Lucas Alaman |
"Strongman" who controlled the state of Guerrero in the 1850s and depended on Acapulco trade | Juan Alvarez |
Physician and philosopher who promoted Comte's positivism in Mexico | Gabino Barreda |
Royalist general who ended the Morelos revolt | Felix Calleja |
Founder of PRD and presidential candidate in 1988 | Cuauhtemoc Cardenas |
Flemish Franciscan who founded a school to train priests | Pedro de Gante |
Nun famous for her poetry | Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz |
Second wife of Porfirio Diaz and incremental in church-state relations | Carmen Romero Rubio Diaz |
General who attempted to revolt against Madero, went to prison, then plotted another coup that resulted in the Tragic Ten Days | Felix Diaz |
Secretary of Treasury under Porfirio Diaz | Manuel Dublan |
Critic who warned that radicals would take action if the Diaz regime continued to ignore the poor | Andres Molina Enriquez |
Anarchist and spokesman for the poor of the Porfirato and founder of the the Mexican Liberal Party | Ricardo Flores Magon |
Creole priest who organized a rebellion against Spanish rule | Father Miguel Hidalgo |
Indian Catholic convert on whose tunic an image of the Virgin Mary appeared | Juan Diego |
Madero family patriarch who built his wealth by operating wagon trains | Evaristo Madero |
Multilingual woman given to Cortez by the Potonchan | Marina, aka Malinche |
Leader of rebels against Spanish rule in southern Mexico | Jose Maria Morelos |
Former Mayor of Mexico City and PRD candidate for president in 2006 | Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador |
Former muleteer who led some of Madero's forces during the intial revolt | Pascual Orozco |
Radical critic of Diaz regime who supported redistribution of land | Wistano Luis Orozco |
Jesuit priest whose execution during the Cristero Rebellion garnered media attention and inflamed the conflict | Miguel Augustin Pro Juarez |
General who was loyal to Felix Diaz during the Tragic Ten Days | Bernardo Reyes |
Mysterious leader of the 1994 Chiapas peasant revolt who always hid his face beneath a ski mask | "Subcomandante" Marcos |
Prominent intellectual and political dissident whom student insurgents at the National University supported in 1929 | Jose Vasconcelos |
Notorious outlaw who represented the dispossesed in the Revolution of 1910 | Pancho Villa |
Led some of Madero's forces initially, then later allied with Emiliano Zapata | Pancho Villa |
Radical who represented te dispossesed in the Revolution of 1910 | Emiliano Zapata |
Refused to disarm forces on government order and fought against the Constitutionalists | Emiliano Zapata |
First Bishop of Mexico who wanted an Indian priesthood | Juan de Zumarraga |