The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

282 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA personal dignity. The court record also indicates that the law being applied by the authorities ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 283 Most nativist movements were violently suppressed by state military mobiliza- ...

284 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA labor of the huge Mayan peasantry inhabiting the Peninsula were exploited. Thou- sands of Mayas ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 285 Figure 7.9 Drawing of the town layout at Chan Santa Cruz, the capital of the ...

286 Box 7.5 The Yaqui Rebellions The Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico, have a long history of rebellious activity against outside ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 287 A Pipil Movement in Central America Nativist movements in Central America dur ...

288 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA By the 1830s, the liberals had been in power for several years in El Salvador, and their policy ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 289 In 1879, the liberals passed laws that made it possible for coffee owners to ...

290 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA The most important concessions to the United States, however, were made by lib- eral dictators i ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 291 Box 7.6 Porfirio Díaz and the Indians of Mexico The Mexican historian Enrique ...

292 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 7.10 Oil fields of Veracruz, Mexico, around the turn of the twentieth century. Source unk ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 293 Figure 7.11 Carts for transporting coffee from the Pacific coastal plantation ...

294 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA power in 1911, later maneuvering behind the scenes to have him replaced by the wealthy creole Fr ...

CHAPTER 7 MESOAMERICANS IN THE NEOCOLONIAL ERA 295 change comes from above (led by the upper classes), in revolution it comes fr ...

296 CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA Globally, the twentieth century has been a time of reaping the harvest of s ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 297 reforms that succeeded revolutionary actions in these same countries. A thi ...

298 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA Figure 8.1 Map showing the states of modern Mexico and Central America; also shown are places ment ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 299 Figure 8.2 Pancho Villa, leader of the revolutionary forces in northern Mex ...

300 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA Figure 8.3 Emiliano Zapata, leader of the peasant revolutionary forces in southern Mexico. Courtes ...

CHAPTER 8 NATIVE MESOAMERICANS IN THE MODERN ERA 301 Figure 8.4 Places and regions of action in the Mexican and Central American ...