Why did Mexico have a Mexican Revolution?
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The whole mexican revolution is a bit complex, at least for me. During the election of 1910, Francisco I. Madero was jailed and Porfirio Díaz was declared winner of the elections. The vigilance in Madero’s imprisionment was quite relaxed and Madero escaped without problems, he issued his Plan de San Luis Potosí from San Antonio, Texas, declared the elections null and called for a revolution in November 20th, Díaz was overthrown in a few months and went to France where he died, Madero took the Mexican presidency.\n\nThe real revolts started AFTER Madero took power as president. Zapata wasn’t happy with Madero’s performance and announced his Plan the Ayala, his idea was to take the land from the rich and give it to the poor, the civil war started. Madero was betrayed by his commander in chief Victoriano Huerta (a conspiracy with US Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson) and was killed. Huerta was declared President, Venustiano Carranza, the Coahuila State Governor, didn’t recognize Huerta and declared war, to that side joined Pancho Villa, Álvaro Obregón and Emiliano Zapata, Huerta escaped to Spain, when he tried to come back, he was arrested in the US and died in jail. Venustiano Carranza became president, but Zapata and Villa fought him (a lot of changing sides, huh?), he was elected president again in 1917 and made the Constitution of 1917 (which is the present Constitution of México).\n\nCarranza killed Zapata in 1919, Álvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elías Calles raised against Carranza (another side change) and killed Carranza in 1920, new elections were celebrated and Obregón was declared president. At that point there were still scattered battlers, according to some records, some people didn’t even know why or who they were fighting. Since the new Constitution declared the full separation of church and state, including in education, a new war started in 1926, the so called “Guerra Cristera”, which was basically a war between Catholic Church supporters and the laic government. This war ended around 1929.\n\nSo, for some, the revolution ended in 1920, with Carranza’s dead. For others it ended with la Guerra Cristera in 1929, for others it ended with Cárdenas taking power as president in 1934 and ultimately, for others, the revolution hasn’t ended yet.
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Technically, Spain at time owned the area from Texas all the way to California and all the way up north to Oregon. When the Mexicans won their independence from Spain in 1823, I believe, they inherited what was then New Spain or as its known, "Nuevo Espana". And yes, it did include Colorado. But in the 1840s, America wanted to expand all the way westward and Americans were moving to modern-day Texas. The Americans wanted Texas to become American. Mexico actually encouraged American immigration to the region because of two major reasons. The first region was the Texas territory of what was then Mexico was underpopulated with a few missionary outposts. Second of all, the citizens they had in the area the more government revenue they could have gotten. The allure of the Texas territory was the gold rush. However, the Mexicans had one caveat about American immigration to the region. The Mexicans outlawed slavery. The Americans felt that since they were paying taxes to the Mexican governnment that the Mexican government should just mind their business. (Sounds familiar)\n   Fast foward, Mexico sent troops to the Texas area to keep the Americans in line. The Americans fought against the Mexicans and defeated Mexico at the battle at the Alamo. Mexico had no choice but to give Texas its independence. It is important to note that Texas was an independent nation. Later the Americans bought about 1 million acres from Mexico called the Gadsen Purchase. It is also important to note that Mexico's hold over the far-flung reaches of their possessions north of the Rio Grande was weak at best. \n But the United States won the New Spain territory or after Mexican independence, New Mexico via the Mexican-American war. Technically to say that America belonged them isn't true as Spain only colonized Mexico in 1509. Simple subtraction find the western US belonged to Mexico(1848-1823) only 25 years. It belonged to Spain for (1823-1509) 314 years.
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I don't know how the past can be used as a valid argument, it doesnt make sense. \n             Excerpt from the History Channel\n\n                   War with the U.S.\nThe residents of Texas, then under Mexican rule, had been angered in 1829 by a governmental decree abolishing slavery, and the plan by Santa Anna to centralize the government increased their resentment. Texas rebelled in 1836 and declared its independence after Santa Anna was decisively defeated by the Texan leader Sam Houston at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. In 1846, as a result of friction between U.S. citizens and Mexicans, a dispute over the western boundary of Texas, and the desire of Americans to acquire California, the U.S. declared war on May 12 (see Mexican War). The Mexican forces were again routed, and U.S. troops occupied northern Mexico and, in 1847, Mexico City. Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Feb. 2, 1848, the Rio Grande was fixed as the boundary of Texas and the territory now forming the states of California and New Mexico became part of the U.S. The Gadsden Purchase in 1853 clarified the New Mexico boundary and gave an additional strip of territory (now southern Arizona and a slice of southwestern New Mexico) to the U.S. \n\nMexico was confronted with a grave reconstruction problem after the war. Finances were devastated, and the prestige of the government, already weak, had considerably diminished. Santa Anna, compelled to resign after the war, returned from exile in 1853 and, with Centralist support, declared himself dictator. Early in 1854 a liberal revolt began, and after more than a year of intensive fighting, Santa Anna fled from Mexico. The revolution was the first event in a long, fierce struggle between the powerful classes that had traditionally dominated Mexico and the liberal democrats who demanded a voice in the government.
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The celebration of Cinco de Mayo (meaning 5th of May in Spanish) should not be confused with Mexican Independence Day. Mexican Independence Day is celebrated on 15th September while Cinco de Mayo falls on 5th of May. Mexico declared its independence from Spain on 24th August, 1821. This modern holiday begain when a group of California State University students decided to hold the first Cinco de Mayo commemoration in the United States. This was around 1967. The students felt that there was no Chicano holidays and needed to do something about it. They wanted something to recapture their history and identity and decided that the Battle of Puebla was symbolic and they could connect it to their struggle for the formation of a Chicano Studies program at the university.\n\nCinco de Mayo is not an American Holiday but it is celebrated on a much larger scale by Chicanos in the U.S. than in Mexico. In Mexico, the celebration of Independence Day is considered more important. Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of the courage of the Mexican people during the battle (La Batalla de Puebla) on May 5th, 1862 where 4,500 Mexican soldiers defeated the Mexican traitors (exiled Mexican Convervatives) and French army of 6,500 at Puebla, Mexico . Puebla is 100 miles east of Mexico City. The Mexican forces were made up of untrained commoners. This victory did not win the war but it showed the courage and strength of the Mexican troops. The "Batalla de Puebla" became a symbol of Mexican unity and patriotism.\n\nAfter Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, the country was faced with many problems. There were internal power struggles and during the dictatorship of Santa Anna, Mexico went to war with the United States in 1846. This war and the years of fighting put Mexico in a very bad financial position. It was bankrupt. Mexico had to give away a huge portion of its land to the United States. That land is now known as Texas.
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federal republic \n\nThe nation continues to make an impressive recovery. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. Elections held in July 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that the opposition defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) was sworn in on 1 December 2000 as the first chief executive elected in free and fair elections.
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The Mexican military at its best would not have been a match for either the CSA or the USA and when the Civil War ended there would have been hell to pay.  The Mexican Army though very proud and brave was poorly armed throughout the 18th century and relied on obsolete tactics.  Though they outnumbered their foe in the Mexican War, the Americans made short brutal work of them and they really did not have the energy or resources to devote to another war with the US.  Add to this the fact that until 1910, Mexican governments still more or less fell into the old Spanish imperial style being undemocratic and opressive making popular support for any war a virtual impossibility.  Also during most of the period the mexicans were occupied fighting the French who sought to establish an empire for themselves there.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_revolution#Causes\nthis might help check it out
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when mexico city becomes the nations capital
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Contrary to popular belief, it is not the Mexican Independence holiday(that is in September).  It is celebrated because that day marked the defeat of French forces against the Mexican Army.
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I suggest reading Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women, and War by Mark Wasserman (2000).  You will find the answers you need in there.  \nAlso, check out this website: http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/dpalfrey/dpcolonial2.html
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When you think of freedom you think....MEXICO???\n\nThere was no freedom in mexico. Slaves did not speak spanish and would have been turned over to the nearest slave trader for a couple of tortilla's...
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The Texas Revolution was fought from October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836 between Mexico and the Tejas portion of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas.\n\nAnimosity between the Mexican government and the American settlers in Texas began with the Siete Leyes of 1835, when Mexican President and General Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón, abolished the Constitution of 1824 and proclaimed a new anti-federalist constitution in its place. Unrest soon followed throughout all of Mexico and war began in Texas on October 1, 1835 with the Battle of Gonzales. Early Texian success at La Bahia and San Antonio were soon met with crushing defeat at the same locations a few months later.\n\nThe war ended at the Battle of San Jacinto (about 20 miles east of modern day Houston) where General Sam Houston led the Texas army to victory over a portion of the Mexican Army under Santa Anna, who was captured shortly after the battle. The conclusion of the war resulted in the creation of the Republic of Texas. The Republic was never recognized by the government of Mexico, and it teetered between collapse and invasion from Mexico. Texas was annexed by the United States of America in 1845, and it was not until the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848 that the "Texan Question" would finally be resolved.
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There is really no way to explain why except to say that the government of mexico is totally concerned with what others are doing at the cost of it's own people. It is the type of government that would rather keep more than half of it's people below poverty and at the same time have legislative meeting to petition the American government to allow criminals to walk free in American society. The government of mexico and the people who put them there are NOT accepted as a world class country for just that type of reason.
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They have a class system.  The do not want a middle class at all all those that are beneath the rich and ruling class are to stay that way.  But like most of cultures people continue to have babies, and those babies grow up and cause a drain on the rich and ruling class.  There needs to be away to feed, cloth and keep them settled so that they will not fight to overthrow a cruel and unjust government.  So what better way than to drive them out of the homeland and into that of another country.  For their government could care less if they lived or died (do you think there is water in the desert for those of us traveling to Mexico illegally) and much less what really happens to them here. \n\n Mexico is a corrupt government that only aids to the desparate state of being that their people are in.  Flying into Mexico City, by the way, which if very beautilful, one can see as far as the eye, roof tops of cardboard boxes.  One can drive down US Hwy 10 on the West side of El Paso and see conditions across the board that are just horrifing.  One can drive into Juazes and see the manison with their great walls around them, and people lining the streets in filth and hunger.  Their government does not want them there, so whats a few million, drive them N. and get them out of Mexico, so that we may have their lands and not worry about their existence.  Of course if we can use them ( the millions they drive from Mexico)in such a way as to get America to give us more and do more for us then so be it.  And if they can use them (with lies that they are entitled to something in this land), the poor driven souls to cause unrest in America then they are for that.  \n\nIts called all for me and none for you government.  There is a very small ruling class in Mexico, they rule with an iron hand.  \n\nKiss the ground you live and work on, for it is not like another on earth.  And those that come here both legally and illegally know this, that is why they still come!
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Mexico is a country in turmoil. They have lived under a cast system for all of their modern history. Mexico is clearly a State of haves and have nots. The rich are very rich and the poor are very poor. There is a small middle class and they are mostly the managers of the rich people’s property and businesses. Mexico has opened the door to a major Marxist movement. Nearly fifty percent of the Mexican people voted for a Marxist in the last presidential election. There are also many powerful criminal organizations in Mexico. \n\nThe ordinary people are sick, tired and scared. They have no where to turn to. This is why they leave their families and everything they know for a chance for a new life in America. It is time for American’s to recognize the current illegal immigration problem is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Mexico is headed for a civil war.\n\nIf civil war breaks out in Mexico the United States will be drawn in. The United States will have to intervene if for no other reason than to stop the flood of Mexican refugees from crossing our borders. A civil war will create a flood of humans we have never experienced. We have to become proactive and take action now to help Mexico turn its economy around. It may already be too late. Perhaps there is no way short of revolution for the Mexican people to turn the situation around—only time will tell.
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I hope this helps! From a fellow TEXAN\n\nIn the Texas Revolution of 1835-36, American colonists in Texas secured the independence of that area from Mexico and subsequently established a republic. Since the 1820s many settlers from the United States had colonized Texas; by the 1830s they far outnumbered the Texas Mexicans. Mexican dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna attempted to reverse this trend by such measures as abolishing slavery and enforcing the collection of customs duties. The settlers rebelled (originally as part of a general federalist resistance to Santa Anna's Centralist government, which had overthrown the Mexican Constitution of 1824). Hostilities began at Gonzales on Oct. 2, 1835; the Texans repelled a Mexican force sent to disarm them and won subsequent victories. \n\nIn February 1836, Santa Anna, undiscouraged, led a large army across the Rio Grande; he was delayed, however, by the unexpectedly determined defense of the Alamo. Meanwhile, the Texans declared their independence from Mexico on Mar. 2, 1836, and organized a provisional government. Sam Houston led a successful retreat, but other insurgents were defeated and massacred in late March. Santa Anna pursued the rebels, overstretching his supply line and thus isolating his forces on San Jacinto Prairie. There, on April 21, he was routed by Houston and taken prisoner. Mexican troops then withdrew from Texas. The Republic of Texas (with its Lone Star flag) remained independent until 1845, when it became part of the United States.
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Please...is this even a question?  YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  How Mexico?  Why Mexico?