Matching Pairs MATCH HISTORICAL CHARACTERSOnline version BIOGRAPHY by Marielena Toxcoyoa 1 2 3 4 5 6 Was a Mexican businessman and politician. His proclamation against the government of Porfirio Díaz is usually considered as the event that initiated the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He endeavored in his mandates to implement the liberal ideology, enacting laws to make effective agrarian reform, freedom of the press, separation between the Church and the State and the submission of the army to civil authority. He is considered the discoverer of America, although he died believing he had arrived in the Indies. The new continent is named after another Italian explorer: Américo Vespuccio, who participated in various expeditions to America at the beginning of the 16th century was an American politician and lawyer who served as the sixteenth president of the United States of America from March 4, 1861 until his assassination on April 15, 1865 He actively joined the circles that questioned colonial status and conspired to overthrow the Spanish viceroy. When the conspiracy in which he participated was discovered, he was called to take up arms (the so-called Grito de Dolores, on September 16, 1810) he was erected as leader of a popular uprising against the colonial authorities, He joined the revolutionary movement against Porfirio Diaz. Minister of war and Navy during the presidency of Madero, when he died he put himself at the head of the constitutionalist movement against Victoriano Huerta. He later fought Villa and Zapata,