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53 Cards in this Set
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Who fought alongside Davy Crockett? |
Juan Seguin |
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What state did most Colombians and Panamanians migrate to? |
New York |
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What decade saw the biggest migration of Panamanians? |
1950's |
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What case outcome was ordered upon the Canal Zone in 1954?
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Brown V. Board of Education |
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What president ordered the end of discrimination in the Canal Zone? |
FDR |
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What was the outcome of the Carter Torrijos treaty of 1977? |
U.S. troops are withdrawn from Panama |
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What happened in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, because of the assassination of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan |
rioting, burning of the capital, total of 2,000 deaths`` `` |
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What was the M-19? |
A Colombian Guerrilla communist party |
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What do Coyotes do? |
Smuggled Colombian immigrants,Mulled drugs, charged high amount of money. |
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From 1955-1986, What percentage of characters did latinos portray? |
2 Percent |
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In the 1970s, Latinos were portrayed as what in television and film? |
Drug addicts, criminals, villans |
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Who reinstated Spanish as the language of instruction in Puerto Rico? |
Luis Munoz Marin |
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What is a corrido? |
A Mexican ballad depicting events and people |
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Perez de Villagra was a...? |
Catholic priest, translator and Cuban philosopher |
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What happened in the Dominican Republic in April 1965? |
An uprising that sought to restore power to the country's first democratically elected President Juan Bosch. |
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Who was Juan Bosch? |
The Dominican Republic's first democratically elected president |
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Why were early Dominican immigrants so successful at starting private businesses? |
Many came from the upper class, had a good education and more politically aware. |
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What industries did Dominicans influence in New York City during the 1960's |
Music, food,retail,education |
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In the 1990's, a teacher in the Dominican Republic earned the equivalent of ____ American dollars a month. |
$100 dollars per month |
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What is one social action group that was formed in the 1970's in Manhattan? |
Association of Progressive Dominicans (ACDP) |
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Who is Trujillo? |
A U.S, appointed dictator who ruled the Dominican republic with violence |
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How many Dominican immigrants went to Puerto Rico in 1990? |
about 13,200 |
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During the transition to the U.S., which group of Dominicans were most educated? |
Adult women |
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Who are the Luciano's? |
a family who had connections to Trujillo, yet some members protested against him. Eventually they escaped to the U.S.
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What was the most important march? |
May Day March |
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What are three reasons for continued immigration to the U.S. |
catastrophic economic crisis, corporate globalization and declining birth rates among whites |
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What was the first federal clamp on contemporary immigration? |
1986 immigration reform and control act |
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During the 2000's how many undocumented immigrants were deported out of the U.S. through I.C.E raids? |
900,000 |
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Why was proposition 187 overturned? |
it was unconstitutional |
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Who was the representative that introduced the border protection anti-terrorism and illegal immigration control act? |
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What is the major economic contributor to many Latin American countries?
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Family in the U.S. sending money back home
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Omega 7, Alpha 66, and Comando Zero are all what kind of organization?
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Cuban
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Who is referred as the "wise Latina"?
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Sonia Sotomayor
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Who is Sonia Sotomayor? |
Supreme Court Justice |
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In what year did Republicans regain power in the House of Representatives?
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2010 |
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What was the Third Force? |
interracial coalition of voters |
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What were the names of new organizations that arose during the nationalist period(1965-1974)? |
Latino Radical organizations |
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What did the third set of Latino radical organizations focus on? |
Basic human rights |
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Who started the rainbow coalition? |
Jesse Jackson |
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Why did the rainbow coalition fall apart? |
The opinions of African Americans and Hispanics began to clash The hispanics felt that the black representatives weren’t representing the hispanic population |
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Who was Juan Seguin? |
Alamo survivor that went on to become an influential American politician. |
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Which Catholic priest was assassinated by U.S. trained military in El Salvador? |
Oscar Romero |
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What was the name of the group of revolutionaries that ended the reign of the Somoza family in Nicaragua? |
Sandinistas |
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Which U.S. president ended the Bracero Program? |
Johnson |
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Who wrote "the cult of ethnicity"? |
Arthur Schlesinger |
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Who is called the Forgotten father of Latino Politics in the United States |
Juan Seguin |
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Balzac V. the people of Puerto Rico defined Puerto Rico as...? |
an incorporated territory |
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Who coined the term "cultural imperialism" |
Edward Said |
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This family ruled Nicaragua as a dictatorship for 40 years |
The Somoza family |
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Which Guatemalan won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 |
Rigoberta Menchu |
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What was the name of the U.S. backed guerrilla fighters that fought against the marxist group in Nicaragua? |
The Contras |
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What is the city with the largest Latino population? |
San Antonio |
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Where did Dominicans migrate to besides the U.S. |
Puerto Rico |
