The Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution affected Mexican-Americans in a number of ways. The turmoil in Mexico caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee to the U.S. (1910–1917), while some demographers placed the figure at one million at the time period. The revolution also fueled animosities between the United States and Mexican governments while threatening the interests of U.S. businesses operating in Mexico. Mexican revolutionaries, from Venustiano Carranza to Ricardo Flores Magon, operated on both sides of the border during this era.
The Wilson administration actively intervened in Mexico in these years, sending troops to Veracruz, Veracruz. When Pancho Villa's troops killed seventeen U.S. mining engineers in Chihuahua, then crossed the border and killed a number of soldiers and civilians in a raid on Columbus, New Mexico, the federal government sent General John J. Pershing on a punitive expedition to capture or defeat Villa. A purported plan to liberate those regions formerly held by Mexico and to drive out all Anglo residents and persistent rumors that Mexico was receiving aid from Germany inflamed public sentiment in the United States even further.
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