Project

  • Venustiano Carranza

    Venustiano Carranza
    -entered the presidency on May 1, 1917 until May 21, 1920
    -Introduced military education in official schools
    -put into practice state and municipal sovereignty.
    -helped with his irregular forces to fight the Orozquista rebellion
    -convened the Constituent Congress that drafted the most advanced Political Constitution of its time
  • Adolfo de la Huerta

    Adolfo de la Huerta
    -renew the executive and legislative power.
    -generated the first amnesty law
    -renegotiated the payment of the external debt
    -activated an agrarian reform program that benefited 128 villages
  • Álvaro Obregón

    Álvaro Obregón
    -Obregón consolidated the alliances of the State with the popular, peasant and worker organizations
    -promoted the most advanced and progressive ideals of the 1917 Constitution
    -applied the Law that established the distribution of land among the peasants who made the Revolution of 1910
    -He promoted rural education, secondary education, technical education and industrial and commercial education.
  • Plutarco Elías Calles

    Plutarco Elías Calles
    -He founded the National Banking Commission and the Bank of Mexico.
    -created the law of the Calles
    -He forced the high officers to revalidate their degree
    -Restructured the School of Chapingo and the School of Veterinary Medicine
  • Emilio Portes Gil

    Emilio Portes Gil
    -favored the division of the land
    -distributed about 2 million hectares that benefited many peasants
    -strengthened peasant organizations
    -was interim president
  • Pascual Ortiz Rubio

    Pascual Ortiz Rubio
    -the National Tourism Commission was founded
    - the Federal Labor Law was enacted
    -Mexico entered the League of Nations.
    -the president was the victim of an attack and had to resign
  • Abelardo Rodríguez

    Abelardo Rodríguez
    -enacted the Agricultural Credit Law
    -He enacted the anti-electoral reform to the Constitution.
    -Created the National Bank of Public Works and Services
    -set the minimum wage