Plan De San Diego Revolt Summary

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The Plan de San Diego Revolt was an occasion in the historical backdrop of south Texas that has for quite some time been known to students of history of Mexico and of the Mexican Revolution. Named for the Texas town where it was declared, the Plan called for Tejanos to ascend, reclaim Texas from the Anglos, and return it to Mexico .

Benjamin Heber Johnson review, Revolution in Texas, approaches the Plan de San Diego Revolt from a totally alternate point of view. This is on account of, in his view, the brutality of 1914 and 1915 along the lower Rio Grande was really the appearance of more profound, more significant statistic and financial changes in the locale. These progressions agitate the predominant racial, social, political, and financial

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