The Mexican Revolution of 1910

1. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 • How unique was it? • Why do revolutions take place? • What were the causes of the revolution? • What impact did the Mexican revolution have on other countries? • When did the Mexican Revolution end?

2. The Mexican Revolution • The Last Years of the Porfiriato • Madero and the Middle-Class Revolt, 1911 • The Revolution Widens • Huerta and the Counterrevolution

3. Diego Rivera Legacies of Independence

4. The Last Years of the Porfiriato • Diaz and the “Secure” Dictatorship • Creelman Interview • Middle Class Opponents and the Rise of Francisco I. Madero • Effective Suffrage, No Reelection • 1910 Presidential Succession • The Need to Open Up the Regime?

6. The Middle-Class Revolt, 1911 • Madero and Diaz • Lower-Classes Enter the Revolution • Pancho Villa and Chihuahua • Emiliano Zapata and the Plan de Ayala in Morelos • The Resignation of Diaz, 21 May 1911 • Madero and the Revolutionaries: The Coalition Unravels

7. Pancho Villa and His Supporters

8. Emiliano Zapata and the Revolution in Morelos

9. Madero and the Revolutionary Leadership, 1911

10. The Revolution Widens • The Revolutionary Coalition Fragments • Zapata and the Break with Madero • General Victoriano Huerta and the Counter-insurgency • Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson and The Pact of the Embassy: February 1913 • The Death of Madero, February 18, 1913

11. General Victoriano Huerta

12. Huerta and the Counterrevolution • Huerta and the Regional Governors • The Props of the Huerta Regime • Army, Rurales, Wealthy Miners and Landowners, Foreign Businessmen • The Election of Woodrow Wilson • The Emergence of Venustiano Carranza in Coahuila

13. Mexico’s Ragged Revolution • The Downfall of the Huerta Regime • Aguascalientes and the Breakdown of Order, 1914 • Carranza and the Constitution of 1917 • The Downfall of Carranza

14. The Downfall of the Huerta Regime • The Supporters of Huerta and the Old Diaz Regime • Huerta and his Enemies • Woodrow Wilson and the U.S. Occupation of Veracruz, 1914 • Revolutionary Groups and Carranza • The Collapse of the Huerta Government

15. Villa’s Troops Enter Chihuahua, 1914

16. Aguascalientes and the Breakdown of Order, 1914 • Carranza and the Convention of Aguascalientes • Carranza, the Presidency, and War • Villa and Zapata at Xochimilco • The Zapatistas: Tierra y Libertad • Alvaro Obregon and Carranza’s Victories

17. The Trench

18. Carranza and the Constitution of 1917 • The New Constitution of 1917 • Article 123: Rights to Labor • Article 27: Land Redistribution and Subsoil Rights • Reform of Education • Restrictions on the Church • Carranza, the Reluctant Revolutionary

19. The First Chief: Carranza

20. The Downfall of Carranza • The Campaign of 1920 and the Fateful Break with Alvaro Obregon • The Rebellion of Obregon and Plutarco Elias Calles • The Death of Carranza, 1920 • The Election of Obregon and the Beginning of “Pragmatic Reform”