Benito Juarez’s Revolt
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Indian lawyer Benito
Juárez led a liberal
revolt titled
La
Reforma
in 1854 and
inaugurated a new
constitution in 1857.
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Military and church privileges were curtailed
and church and Indian communal lands were
sold to individuals.
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Speculators, however, bought the land and
left peasants and Indians poorer than
previously.