Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Guerra de Reforma
- It was initiated due to a movment called "Reforma", which started after the success of the "Plan de Ayutla"
- Several liberalist measures were implemented, such as, Ley Lerdo, Ley Juarez and Ley Iglesias which made the conservative side angry
- Before the war started, the constitution of 1857 was made
- After the implementation of these reforms, a decade of civil war (1857-1867) ensued
- The demands of the conservatives were impossible to fulfill, if took the oath towards the constitution you were excommunicated
- From 1858 to 1860 there was another civil war which made the liberal government retreat to Veracruz and annulled the constitution as well as the "Leyes de Reforma"
- In 1867 the French imposed the archduke Maximilian and this gave the liberals the chance to implement their ideas but only partially the achieved the theory but no the practice
- They took away the lands of the church and gave them away to small farmers in hopes of encouraging a rural democracy but this failed because outsiders came and privatized the agricultural industry
- They wrote about individual guarantees but in reality they did little to protect citizens of the lower clas
- The "Guerra de Reforma" encouraged a sense of nationalism across all of the country which paved the way for the authoritarian government of the "Porfiriato"