Mexican Revolution

Introduction
Francisco Madero had attempted to defeat the long standing Mexican president, Porfirio Diaz, though the ballot box. As election day got closer and he became more popular than ever, Diaz had him arrested and imprisoned. When the ballots were counted, Diaz overwhelmingly won the election. This was clearly electoral fraud and released, Madero fled to the north and into the United States. The first document here, the Plan of San Luis Potosí, was issued by Francisco Madero during his exile in San Antonio, Texas. In it, he calls for the removal of President Porfirio Diaz through revolution. It was this document and the actions that followed that mark the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.

The second document was written by revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, calling for the removal of President Francisco Madero. According to Zapata (and others), Madero had betrayed the revolutionary cause despite the fact that President Diaz had been removed from power. It is this document that changes the fundamentals of the Mexican Revolution and develops the rebellion into a full-scale social revolution.

Read the attached document and answer the following questions:
1. What does it seem that Madero is trying to justify in his Plan de San Luis Potosí?
2. What are the differences that you can see between the Plan de San Luis Potosí and the Plan de Ayala?

You should not use any outside sources beyond the actual documents to complete this assignment. It is intended to be your own analysis and reflections, not based on what you found on the internet.

Each question must be answered in full sentences and paragraphs and a minimum of a 150-word response (approximately 1/2 page). Even if the assignment has multiple questions, your total response is still a minimum of 150 words (not 150 words per question). Retyping the question, headers, and long quotes are not counted toward your minimum required response.

Please copy/paste the question and put your response below in a 12 point font. If there are multiple questions, then you should copy question #1, put your answer below it, then copy question #2, put your answer below it, and so on. Any direct quotes used from the document should be put in quotation marks but it does not need a citation.

Since you are only allowed to use the primary (attached) document as your source, you only need to put quotation marks around the direct quote. All other parts of your response should be in your own words. Copying a sentence and changing a few words in that sentence is plagiarism, so be sure you are careful in your submissions.

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