The Mexican RevolutionEssay Preview: The Mexican RevolutionReport this essayThe Mexican RevolutionWorld History 3, period 5June 6, 2000There was a huge revolution in the country of Mexico that started in the year 1910, led by Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mexico in 1910. In the 1860s Diaz was important to Mexican politics and then was elected president in 1877. Diaz said that he would only be president for one year and then would resign, but after four years he was re-elected as the President of Mexico. Porfirio Diaz and the Mexican revolution had a huge impact on the country of Mexico that is still felt in some places today.
The earliest start to the Mexican Revolution of 1910 happened one hundred years earlier when two priests, Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Morelos, led a stand against the Spanish colonial officials who were controlling Mexico at the time. On September, 16 1810 Hidalgo led Mexicos Indians in a revolution directed against the Spanish plantation owners in northern Mexico. He was motivated by a need for a new government and a re-location of both the churchs and plantation owners lands. Hidalgo and the Indians, armed with only farm tools and weapons, marched towards Mexico City. While Hidalgo was marching into Mexico City, Jose Morelos organized an attack force and began raiding Spanish plantations and towns. Hidalgos army was defeated in 1811 and he was executed. Jose Morelos took control of the revolution and led attacks until the Spaniards captured and killed him in 1815. When Morelos died so did the revolution of 1810.( www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/mexicanrev.htm, Encarta 98)
In 1876, Porfirio Diaz, an Indian general in the Mexican Army took control of the nation, and continued to be elected until 1910. This new era was too one way and started the Mexican Revolution. The government eventually allowed Mexico to fall into dictatorship that gave way to a new a powerful upper class. When Diaz came into power he had high hopes for Mexicos future, and established a stable government that rid the nation of crime. The quality of life improved around the towns and the cities.. The way the government worked was expanded when Diaz sent out his strong governors to rural areas. The military was made stronger by using more professional methods of training the soldiers. From this way of training came a military police force called the Rurales made of thousands of troops. This police force kept order and enforced Diazs laws. Diaz also counted on the Cientificos, a group of commanding people who acted as advisors. The Cientificos way was one of French positivism. Diaz used this philosophy to make reasons for his policies. Diaz kept his old slogan “liberty, order, progress”, but, the word liberty was removed from the slogan. Another slogan “few politics, much administration” also became common and popular. Foreign firms began to invest in Mexico because it became more structurally and economically stable. These investments gave Diaz the money he needed to construct highways, railroads, telegraph lines, and new industries. The city of Veracruz used the money to create oil fields, and elsewhere the mining industry was brought back. Mexico, fifty years before was seen as a third-world nation, became the standard for developing countries because of its high tech industry and technology. Although these were all big steps for Mexicos economy, in the end it was responsible for the bringing down of Diaz. (Encarta 98, www.eh.net.htm)
The people in power became rich along with the nation, however, the majority of the population in the cities and the countryside remained poor. Along with those people, rich and poor Mexicans began to resent their trust on foreign investments. More importantly, the new generation of Mexicans was full of political ambition, and the Diaz era had such control of the government that no one new was able to enter their league. This combination of factors was what sparked the revolution of 1910. In 1908 US journalist James Creelman interviewed Porfirio Diaz. In the interview Diaz said that he believed Mexico would be ready for free elections by 1910. When this interview was published it inspired a rich landowner in Mexico to gather supporters around him and attempt to build a political
e-mail operation. His goal was to establish a “pacto” with a group of young Mexicans. The group would assemble in the streets of Monterrey where the PTA had given the Presidential addresses. In this way the peasants at the Monterrey would be given a chance to win power at a fair price by participating in the government’s plebiscite and voting in municipal elections. Diaz’s followers decided to go into that plebiscite and vote in the national elections. With the PTA winning power, Diaz and his group went and formed the People’s Association.  Under his administration, the PTA began to gain new power. The idea of the People’s Union was also developed, which was in turn developed by people from in Mexico. The people of Mexico had a history of being strong with people of different backgrounds, so they began to develop the concept of a group that would hold the presidency. The group would be “militarized and the people divided into small groups” into the following groups, each with a special name: “Diaz Party” or “National Assembly.” The National Assembly could control the people’s party. The national elected government, as well as all congresses, could also control the masses’ group, which became known as the National Convention. The National Convention would make laws to enforce the constitution; the People’s Convention would organize, amend and organize the country’s municipal and federal legislature; and the National Assembly would be composed of people elected to run for public office in municipalities. The National Convention would hold elections all over Mexico to elect its presidents. The NCP would have local chapters and they would have to be members of the political party. The people’s convention could also bring all necessary information about the problems of the day to the masses, so that the government could solve the problems. The National Convention would convene on a week-by-week basis, with the NCP’s general secretary, John Bell, appointed on a Friday. This organization would be led by Ernesto Diaz who was a member of PTA and head of the Party. All of the participants on the “Pota Party” would be elected by a national popular vote, so anyone who had been nominated for a “Pota Senate” would have to prove that they were from Mexican descent. The people’s Senate would then convene the NCP for public representation in the federal executive branch. The NCP would have a president from each county, from town to town, from state to county, from city to city and from state to city. The NCP would have a general secretary, Juan Carlos PĂ©rez, who would oversee the voting, voting, and organizing of the nation, the public, government, and judicial structures for national and local government. All of the NCP’s people would vote for the president by a state ballot, but the majority of votes would be cast by the same person from each community. This process in turn would lead to the establishment of national constitutions, popular elections, and even elected president. The National Convention would also have various members from the Mexican Congress and their people