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In 1911 the number of inhabitants in the towns of northern Baja California was: 1027 in Ensenada, 300 in Mexicali, 100 in Tijuana, less than 100 in Los Algodones and less than 100 in Tecate. [ 12 ] The Liberal Army had a few private soldiers who received a salary of 1 peso a day and the officers received a somewhat higher payment than their ...
Ricardo Flores Magón and his brother Enrique had a long history of anti-government and pro-socialist incidents before beginning the revolt of 1911.Flores Magón, who was the leader of the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) in Los Angeles, chose early 1911 as the time to begin an insurrection.
The tourist port of Tijuana in 1911 was a small settlement of less than 100 people during the time of battle, most of whom were Anglos from the United States. When rebel forces of the Partido Liberal Mexicano captured Mexicali with little resistance, the rebels split their force in two, a first and second division were created.
Proposition 4 (1911) Passed: Granting women the constitutional right to vote in California. Proposition 7 (1911) Passed: Establishing the constitutional direct democracy powers of initiative and referendum in California. Proposition 8 (1911) Passed: Establishing the constitutional direct democracy power of recall in California. Proposition 14 ...
In a Los Angeles Times opinion piece dated October 1, 1911, Democratic State Senator J.B. Sanford, who was Chairman of the Democratic Caucus of California at the time, [12] called women’s suffrage a “disease,” a “political hysteria,” a “cruel and intolerable burden,” and a “backward step in the progress of civilization.” [13 ...
Despite two-thirds of both the California State Senate and California State Assembly voting to put the measure on the ballot, it failed 45-55 percentage-wise (110,355 Yes votes and 137,099 No votes. [14])Some suffragists believed the power of the liquor lobby was the reason for the defeat as it was assumed women voters would vote for temperance ...
Magonism [1] [2] (Spanish: Magonismo) is an anarchist, or more precisely anarcho-communist, [3] [4] school of thought precursor of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. It is mainly based on the ideas of Ricardo Flores Magón , [ 5 ] his brothers Enrique and Jesús , and also other collaborators of the Mexican newspaper Regeneración (organ of the ...
Many suffragists remained politically active through the new California Civic League. [33] When proposition 4 was passed, Alice Stone Blackwell stated California was, "the greatest single advance that the suffrage movement in America has yet made." [6] 1912: Ty Leung was the first Chinese-American woman to vote. [34]