1. amparo

2. caudillos

3. camarilla

4. dedazo

5. ejidos

6. maquiladora

7. sexenio

8. sufragio efectivo, no reelección

9. corporatism

10. clientelism

11. constitutional amendment process

12. presidentialism, hyper-presidentialism, or presidencialismo

13. Porfiriato

14. liberals

15. conservatives

16. progressives

17. the ideology of the Revolution

18. positivism (científicos)

19. technocrats (técnicos v. politicos)

20. PNR, PRM, PRI

21. PAN

22. PRD

23. Election Laws/Amendments of 1963, 1973, 1977, 1990, 1996, 2007, 2013/14

Mega-terms

proportional representation

mixed-member proportional system

party list system

separation of power

one-party state, one-party dominant system

presidential system

government in transition, politics in transition

Neoliberalism

Names, Dates, Events, etc.

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba & Hernán Cortés

Father Manuel Hidalgo

General Antonio López de Santa Anna

Benito Júarez

Porfirio Díaz, Porfiriato

Madero, Villa, Zapata, Orozco

Ávaro Obregón

Plutarco Elias Calles (jefe máximo)

War of Independence, 1810

Constitution of 1824

Mexican American War

Constitution of 1857

The War of Reform 1858-61

Cinco de Mayo 1862

Mexican Revolution of 1910

Constitution of 1917

peninsulares, criollos, mestizos, natives, blacks, mulattos

1968 Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico City Olympics

Zapatistas (EZLN)

Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI)

Foreign direct investment (FDI)

Mexican Miracle

PEMEX

Presidents Cardenas through Peῆa Nieto