Yet, the Caste War was also a war of factions, Maya against Mexican, Maya against British, Mexican against British, and Maya against Maya. ... The revolutionary movement enlisted Maya peasants with the promise of freedom from taxes and guaranteed land rights. Finding the Maya eager and willing to fight, the revolutionaries armed the Maya and mobilized them in great numbers against the existing government forces. ... By February of 1847 colonial revolutionary hostilities had eased and a new government was installed in Merida by May of the same year. ... By the end of that year, it is estimated ...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Various revolutionary leaders and factions pursued different goals during and immediately after the revolution. ... He goes from being a peaceful individual to a compulsive fighter; a prime example of how person can change in war. ... Cervantes embodies the hopes, dreams, and ideals of the revolutionary effort. ... It is the authors own experiences of the war that he pours into these main characters that not only make for a successfully novel, but also a better understanding of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. ... This is a common thing and moral problem among all revolutionaries. ...

• Word Count: 960
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Development Mexico was born in a revolution against Spain, that at the same time it was also a civil war against the mestizo and Indian peoples and its central government, at that time it was dominated by white and urbanized elite accustomed to power over centuries, after the independence was over, Mexico again suffered another revolution in 1910 and which this one lasted over a decade, ending in the destruction of the country's wealth and in a massive loss of life, the people shocked by these previous events were susceptible to any kind of political thinking that could save the devastate...

• Word Count: 1651
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Mexican Revolution demonstrates a clear form of a revolutionary movement caused by multiple factors. ... The people of Mexico were fighting to create a revolutionary movement in order to live in a better country with a higher quality of life. ... In order for the citizens of Mexico to form a revolutionary movement, the Value-Added Theory came intact. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The original intent of the revolutionaries was to remove Portfirio diaz, the dictator, from power. ... The trouble came when the revolutionary factions, of which there were three, revolted against each other. ... The revolutionaries were unable to establish a permanent government until 1934, because every president that was elected eventually was either exiled or assassinated. Throughout the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution came a new and more democratic state of Mexico, though it took many year of war to accomplish. ... Revolutionaries eventually gained enough supporters to contest diaz...

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Mexico has a long and glorious history stretching from thousands of years before the arrival of Hernán Cortés in the 1500's to the present day presidency of Ernesto Zedillo and his ruling party, the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party, or PRI. ... Santa Ana dominated Mexican politics for about 30 years, and it was under his command that Mexico lost Texas, as well as losing the Mexican-American War. ... France took advantage of the American Civil War to install Emperor Maximillian as a puppet on the throne in Mexico City. ... In 1929, President Calles would establish ...

• Word Count: 1114
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Soon, though, there was muttering about not being true enough to the Revolutionary ideologies. ... A precedent was set at this time: No President of Mexico lasts unless he's head of the Revolutionary Family and ruler. He had to unite and rule both the Revolutionary Family and Mexico - all-or-nothing power. ... The three non-Revolutionaries who require and arranged his deposition were General Victoriano Huerta, General Felix Diaz, and U.S. ... A civil war began in Mexico when General Venustiano Carranza, a follower of Madera, opposed Huerta. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The post-revolutionary governments of the period 1911-1934 did undertake some land reform, but it was premised on the idea that capitalism would remain dominant in the countryside: what was to be abolished was a supposedly "traditional" landlordism. ... Even though land reform was one of the Mexican Revolution's key objectives, the population after 2 decades of revolutionary struggle had seen little change and improvement. ... Secular education was generally still prevalent however, when Cardenas attempted to integrate sexual education into the schooling system the Catholics fought back s...

• Word Count: 830
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Roosevelt mediated the conflicts between Russia and Japan to put an end to their war. ... Wilson announced a new policy toward revolutionary regimes in Latin America. ... What were the issues that led to the U.S. involvement in World War 1? An issue that led to the United States involvement in war were the demands of trade. The war produced the greatest economic boom in the nation's history. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although Pancho was known as killer and a bandit, but since he was a revolutionary leader he is remembered as a folk hero. ... Villa joined Madero and shortly became leader in the revolutionary army. ... After Huerta was overthrown Mexico entered civil war. ... Villa retired from the revolutionary life in 1920. ...

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Then there were those people like Luis Cervantez, Blondie and War Paint who were swept by the spoils of war that the revolution could offer. ... "Los Adelitas", the women of the revolution, is the role that Camilla and War Paint would play. ... War Paint for example thought that any man that she wanted was hers and hers alone. ... That leaf is much like many of the soldiers who are fighting this war. ... These people fought because they were worried about the person next to them and not about the war. ...

• Word Count: 2263
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• Grade Level: High School

He was a South American revolutionary, military leader, and politician known as the Liberator for his leading role in the wars of Spanish American Independence (Kinsbruner). ... He now received 4000 soldiers that volunteered to help him since the Napoleonic Wars in Europe had ended. ... Jose de San Martin was also a South American Revolutionary. ... The war for Independence started in 1810 by Miguel Hidalgo, a priest who wanted to revolt against the Peninsulares. ... Then a civil war broke out in 1826 and by 1831 the federation was broken apart into the present Central American nations. ...

• Word Count: 1969
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Aztecs began to go to war with neighboring tribes to capture males to sacrifice, this brought on hostile relationships between the Aztecs and the other tribes. ... This angered the Indians and they revolted in 1541 against the abuses of the grants (encomienda system) in the Mixton War. ... Texas has declared their independence on March 2,1836 and so Mexico and the United States were involved in a war by1846. The treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo ended the war, but took over half of Mexico's land. ...

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Politicians such as Henry Clay said that he would only support annexation if such a move could be done without any war with Mexico. ... Polk became president; decidedly pro-Texas, pro-expansionist, and pro-manifest destiny, Polk began making war preparations to annex Texas under any means necessary, including war with Mexico. ... Surely enough, Mexico attacked Taylor's troops and killed 11 Americans; that was all Polk needed to declare war on Mexico. In the Senate, Polk was able to obtain permission to declare war on Mexico despite objections from the Whig Party. ... Such an atrocity arou...

• Word Count: 3500
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After months of being away from home, she returns home not only as a general to revolutionary troops in the war, but married, and still remains an object of attraction for the troops. ... Same goes to the Revolutionary Family, they did not like the way they were being taking advantage of and decided to do something about it. ...

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One such hero was Pancho Villa, a revolutionary leader. ... War cries such as 'long live the Virgin Guadalupe! ... They proclaimed that anyone who was against the reform would have their land nationalized and given as indemnizations of war. ... On the cathedral Mexico's flag and the flag of the Mexican Revolutionary Party were hung alongside a banner proclaiming 'The PRM extends greetings to President Lazaro Cardenas, redeemer of economic independence.' ...

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Victors and Vanquished, The Interesting Narrative, and The Social Contract gave their readers a glimpse into what the world was like before it became modern. New resources and different cultures were being discovered by explorers that the Old World had never been aware of before. Slaves were a large...

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There is no clear solution in solving America's drug problem, but serious solutions should be explored as the War on Drugs is not working. ... Terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda traffic narcotics to fund their war on the West. Although it is against the teaching of Islam to sell drugs, they justify it because it allows them to continue to wage war on the West (Washington Times, 2009). ... In Columbia, there are two major terrorist groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the United Self-Defense Groups of Colombia (AUC), it is estimated that half of their operat...

• Word Count: 1757
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Mexico's transition to democracy was best demonstrated in the election of 2000 as the people voted out a 70 year-long semi-authoritarian rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party. ... However, when Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN) was elected President of Mexico, it marked the end of 71 years of continuous rule of the executive branch by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). ... Over time, however, the successful initiation of a transition to democracy has aided the war or corruption, a component of the non-democratic regime it was before. ...

• Word Count: 1920
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the head of a motley band of rebels, he began the first of a series of wars of independence that pitted rebels against the Spanish crown for eleven years. ... For most of the 20th century, only one political party, the government- controlled Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), played an influential role in politics or in the decision-making process. ...

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5/11/03 There are many different explanations why the United States is the world superpower it is today and Mexico, while sharing a border, is still merely a developing country. The main reasons, which effected the economic development of both countries, include the cohesion of the country, the nat...

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The first attempt to begin a Mexican Revolution started when Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Morelos, went against Spaniard officials who were governing Mexico. Both priests led attacks, Hidalgo and Mexican Indians went after plantation owners in northern Mexico. They were armed with tools and were motivat...

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