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A Mexican Revolution Photo History: Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, and U.S. Interests

Author(s): Marco Portales

President James K. Polk and Congress declared war on Mexico in 1846, ten years after the Alamo. Two years later, the U.S. took 55 percent of Mexico’s land, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, and the southern parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Mexicans living in the Southwest became Mexican...