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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 into prison. Diaz won the electoral vote and Madero soon escaped into America. Madero decided that there was only one way to free Mexico from Porfirio Diaz’s rule. While Madero was in San Antonio he wrote the “Plan of San Luis Potosi”, which stated that the 1910 elections didn’t count because it was rigged and it also called for an armed Revolution to begin at 6 p.m. on November 20, 1910. Madero had the support of many other popular leaders of the time, including Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa. Although the “Plan of San Luis Potosi” called for a revolution on November 20, there was a small battle beforehand. Diaz sent a very small force to the home of Aquiles Serdan because it had recently been found out that Serdan was a part of Madero’s revolution. However, Serdan fought back with the aid of his family. Unfortunately most of Serdan’s family, as well as Serdan, were killed in the battle. Diaz resigned from his Presidency on May 25, 1911 as a result of the Treaty...
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