Main article: Francisco I. Madero1903. The banner reads: "The Constitution has died" (La Constitución ha muerto).In 1910 Francisco I. Madero, a young man from a wealthy family in the northern state o ...
After Benito Juárez's death in 1872, liberal General Porfirio Díaz attempted to gain the presidency, but failed as Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada succeeded Juárez. As liberal allies Juárez and Díaz h ...
As in World War I, the number of volunteers began to run dry as the war dragged on. Mackenzie King had promised, like Borden, not to introduce conscription, though his position was somewhat ambiguous: ...
The depression had crippled the economy and left one in nine Canadians on relief. Nor did relief come free; the Bennett government had asked the Canadian Department of National Defense to organize wor ...
Canada was hard hit by the worldwide Great Depression that began in 1929. Between 1929 and 1933, the gross national product dropped 40% (compared to 37% in the US). Unemployment reached 27% at the dep ...
Main articles: Military history of Canada during World War I and Canadian women during the World WarsOn June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated, setting off a chain ...
In 1854 the British government established Newfoundland's responsible government. In 1855, Philip Francis Little, a native of Prince Edward Island, won a parliamentary majority over Sir Hugh Hoyles an ...
The Riel Rebellion (or more precisely Riel Rebellions) is the name often given to two uprisings led by Louis Riel in what are now Manitoba and Saskatchewan.These were:The Red River Rebellion of 1869Th ...
Main article: The Canadian Crown and Aboriginal peoplesFor details of treaties in British Columbia, see Status of First Nations treaties in British Columbia.The relationship between The Canadian Crown ...
On the 2010 census 0.9 percent of the U.S. population identified themselves as being Native American (or Alaskan Native). No conclusive evidence exists to determine how many native people lived in Nor ...
The rule of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911) was dedicated to order—which meant the rule by law and the suppression of violence—and modernization of all aspects of the society and economy. Diaz was an as ...
Main article: Canadian ConfederationIn the 1860s, the British were concerned with the possibility of an American assault on Canada in the wake of the American Civil War. Britain also feared that Ameri ...
A new spirit of the times, known as "Progressivism", arose in the 1890s and into the 1920s (although some historians date the ending with the World War I).The presidential election of 1900 gave the U. ...
From 1865 to about 1913, the U.S. grew to become the world's leading industrial nation. Land and labor, the diversity of climate, the ample presence of railroads (as well as navigable rivers), and the ...
Main article: Reconstruction era of the United StatesReconstruction gave black farmer, businessman and soldier the right to vote for the first time in 1867, as celebrated by Harper's Weekly on its fro ...
