The Mexican Revolution began in the year of 1910 and ended on 1917. It was a time of political and social unrest that emerged out of the rebellion against long-time dictator Porfirio Díaz. Porfirio Diaz was a former brigade general in the Mexican-American War who first rose to Presidency in the year 1876. Diaz served one term of four years on his first election, in 1876, and then allowed his successor, Manuel Gonzalez, take his place as President of Mexico. Gonzalez’s term was filled with so much corruption that when Diaz retook his Presidency, in 1884, he found that the country was left with almost no money.
Porfirio Diaz won all of his re-elections by manipulating his votes and assassinating most of his opponents. During the election of 1910, Diaz promised Mexico, in an interview, that the election would be democratic. However, when the “Apostle of Democracy”, Francisco I. Madero joined the political race, Diaz had Madero and 5,000 members of the Anti-Reelectionists put......

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Title: The Mexican Revolution
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