HIST222
Unit 3 Assessment: “Key People and Events of the Mexican Revolution”
The Mexican Revolution was one of the most important events in Mexican history, but it
also reverberates throughout Latin American history. Many of the issues and
challenges that created and were created by the Mexican Revolution recurred in other
Latin American nations, as you will see later in this course. This assessment will help
you unravel all the complex actors and events that comprised the Mexican Revolution of
1910–1920. Try to answer the questions below as best you can, and when you are
done, please check your work against the Saylor Foundation’s Answer Guide to the Unit
3 Assessment.
1. Who was Porfirio Díaz and what did he do that sparked the Mexican Revolution?
2. What was the “Porfiriato,” and who benefited and who was harmed by it?
3. What was the “Plan of San Luis Potosi”?
4. What was the Plan de Ayala, who issued it, and what did it imply about the agrarian
nature of the Mexican Revolution?
5. Why was Francisco Madero unable to remain in power and what ultimately happened
to him?
6. What were the four revolutionary factions fighting against Victoriano Huerta?
7. Following the downfall of Huerta, which faction did the United States support, and
how did this affect the fighting in Mexico?
8. What was the Constitution of 1917 and why is it important?
9. What was unique about Emilio Zapata’s origins and how did his role in the revolution
end?
10. Under which president did large-scale land reform finally occur? And what were the
major features of the land reform?
11. What is the PRI and how did it come about?
12. How were the PRI and its predecessor political parties able to stabilize Mexican
government?
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