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Díaz stated that Mexico was ready for democracy and elections and that he would step down to allow other candidates to compete for the presidency
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Francisco I. Madero, stated that he would be running against Díaz for the presidency in the next election.
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To ensure his victory, Díaz had Madero thrown in jail, then declared himself the winner.
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Madero issued a "letter from jail" called the Plan de San Luis Potosí, with its main slogan Sufragio Efectivo, No re-elección ("free suffrage and no re-election").
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Madero called for a revolt against Diaz
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Francisco I. Madero overthrew longtime Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz
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Victoriano Huerta seizes power and becomes president.
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Madero was forced to resign by Victoriano Huerta. He and vice president José María Pino Suárez were both shot dead by soldiers.
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Venustiano Carranza, a politician and rancher from Coahuila organized his own rebel army, called the Constitutionalists, with the secret support of the United States. Carranza issued the Plan de Guadalupe, which refused to recognize Huerta as president and called for war between the two factions
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Wilson and his Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan saw Huerta as a usurper of presidential power in violation of the Constitution of Mexico
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Huerta stepped down and fled to Puerto México
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Venustiano Carranza became president in 1914, after he overthrew Huerta. He was later driven out of Mexico city but was re-elected in 1917.
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The constitution of Mexico was passed by congress.
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Plutarco Elías Calles and Adolfo de la Huerta, led a revolt against Carranza under the Plan of Agua Prieta. Their agents assassinated Carranza on May 21, 1920
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Alvaro Obregon becomes president and the revolution calms down.
