HISTORY 124A Lecture 22: Lecture 22
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1910 mexican revolution begins, with the demand land for the landless and mexico for the mexicans . 1910 by this date, americans owned 43% of property in mexico. 1912 americans own of the silver, lead, and copper mines, nearly of the smelters, and almost 70& of the rubber, and 60% of the oil. Lots of foreign investment in mexico (not only from the. 1913 wilson devises a plan to divide mexico into two or three regions with the u. s. occupying the northern states. 1914 april 9, u. s. sailors detained for a few hours in tampico by a commander of mexican revolutionary vitoriano huerta. Admiral henry t. mayo demands a 21 gun salute. 1914 april 20, wilson goes to congress to ask for use of force against mexico and then occupies veracruz. Resources of mexico should be for mexicans! Outsiders didn"t agree, so foreign domination fostered a lot of nationalism in mexico.