Did The Mexican Revolution Hurt People Essay

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Do Revolutions help or hurt people? Well for the answer we have to go way back to the Mexican and French Revolution. There are other Revolutions that occurred, but the French Revolution Is a example of how the Revolution Hurt people. Now let's begin with the French Revolution.

The French Revolution Was led by the Third Estate before the French Revolution The French society was divided into three Estates the clergy, the nobility, and the peasants. The Third Estate was forced to pay 50% of there money to taxes in other words the first and Second Estate didn't have to pay taxes because they were wealthy . The Third Estate was the less fortunate in money. In supporting question 1 Source a, of the French Revolution It gives evidence of how the French people belonged to the Third Estate “97% of the the French people belonged to the Third Estate and had to pay 50% of the money they needed to the unfair government”. The Revolution …show more content…

Huerta proved to be a even fiercer authoritarian than Diaz, and till this day they are known as Mexico's most despised villains. As president he continued using political assassination as an tool and forcibly conscripted the poor into his beefed- up federal army. In other to topple him, Zapata and other Revolutionary leaders such as Francisco “Pancho “ Villa, Venustiano Carranza and Alvaro Obregon, united together, but since these men came from different parts of the country and had disparate political views, they turned on each other soon after forcing out Huerta in July 1914. Villa and Zapata occupied Mexico City together. Carranza and Obregon headed to the part city of Veracruz. Though Villa and Zapata originally appeared to have upper hand, the tide turned in 1915 when Obregon won an series of battles against Villa with the help of trenches, barbed wire and other World War I-era defensive

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