Michelle Brazfield

[Michelle Brazfield @MichelleBrazfi2]

#Hist466 Although Bucareli agreement signed in May, were subject to various interpretations, they allowed foreign companies to continue their operations and the United States to grant recognition to the Obregon government.

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#Hist466 Calle's vision for Mexico included economic integration though large scale construction projects and improved management of government finances.

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#Hist466 Calle's clash with the Catholic Church, evidence of grossroots resistance to liberal and revolutionary secularism ended in bloody stalemate and left resolved the cultural differences

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#Hist466 Obregon viewed Indians as impediments to progress, and he opposed wholesale land redistribution to villagers.

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#Hist466 Obregon's vision for reconstruction burrowed heavily from his experience as a businessman and farmer he learned about organizing and managing troops while winning a revolution.

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#Hist466 The oil companies with the help of Gulf Coast strongman Manuel Pelaez, had successfully resisted Carranza's attempt to impose higher taxes and greater controls over their industry.

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#Hist466 Obregon's agrarian reform law of 1922 defined the limits and possibilities of his guarded commitment. The law prohibited the breakup of agro industrial enterprises as well smaller properties range from 150 to 500 hectares

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#Hist466 The political situation in postrevolutionary Chihuahua presented Obregon with series challenges.

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#Hist466 Alvarado's reforms had a lasting affect on political awareness of peasants and workers

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#Hist466 Pacheco Villa fought to establish equality for the poor so he became known as the Mexican Robin Hood.

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#Hist466 Venustiano Carranza improved public health by initiating inspections of water supplies and food preparation in restaurants. He also attempted to improve public morality by regulating gambling, public drinking, and prostitution and by closing businesses on Sunday.

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#Hist466 In chapter 5, Gonzales says, "The Convention of Aguascalientes…appears to be closely to resemble the parliament of monkeys described by Kipling in the Jungle Book."

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#Hist466 Modero's commitment to political stability and administrative efficiency revealed his desire to only tinker rather than overthrow it.

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#Hist466 Franscisco Madero behaved more like a political reformer than a social revolutionary.

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#Hist466 Diaz during his presidency would only support a constitutional amendment that limited presidential terms to be only six years

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According to Gonzales in chapter 2 Mexico's economic growth had been driven primarily by the expansion of the export economy based on the strong overseas demand of minerals, cotton, henequen and other commodities. #Hist466

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#Hist466According to Gonzales Diaz created the institutional infrastructure and legal safeguards required to encourage foreigners to invest their money in Mexico's troubled economy

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#Hist466 Document 10 John Red is a revolutionary writer who went onto the battlefield to illustrate the horrors of the war and the noises of the battlefield. I could only image what he saw and heard.

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#Hist466 Document 4 states Zapata prepared the Plan of Ayala vowing to return stolen land to the ejidos that was taken away with payment and a third of area of the large estates but any estates that refused to accept his plan would have their land taken away without compensation

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#Hist466 In 1898, Adolofo Brule, a Mexican ambassador in London sending documents on the "the new 'Marconi' system of wireless telegraphy.