The Latinos in the United States is a dense process that enabled the U.S to expand towards the South and the West. And so, with the annexation of Texas and California it created a variety of push and pull factors that enabled the United States to thrive and grow exponentially. Therefore, it is helpful to understand the annexation process in order to analyze the effects the U.S had in South America. Consequently, this enables us to understand the Puerto Rican and Mexican migration towards to United States. The United States expansion towards the South and West was primarily due to its great economic expansion of Anglo business. The factors that had a major effect for the expansion was due to the mining in California known as the
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And so, the first and second Puerto Rican migrations have been due to the economic boom here in the US. Therefore, there are some push and pull factors that directly correlate with these two migrations. Yet there are critical details of how many dictators rose to power with the help of Washington. Therefore, these claims seem to be somehow realistic because the regimes provided a “friendly” business climate for North America. Political repression was one push factor that directly affected the first Puerto Rican migration. And so, as US plantations induced themselves in Puerto Rico it created many displaced peasants because they were forced from their lands. This started when General Nelson Miles landed in the town of Guanica, in the moment of the Spanish-American War. Therefore, at that moment Puerto Ricans were promised to be liberated from Spanish colonialism. A few years after his arrival, Congress would move swiftly in securing this land as it would become the most important colony. And so, Congress passed the Foraker Act, which declared the island as US territory. Therefore, this act would become very beneficial due to the active World War I and it created a stronghold because the act authorized the president to appoint its civilian governor and top administrators for the …show more content…
The Foraker Act went beyond the Spanish as it would forbid the island from making any commercial treaties with other countries. And so, currency change fluctuated the economy in Puerto Rico as it replaced the Puerto Rican Peso with the American Dollar. At this point, the peso and land price was devaluated, which in effect made it much easier for U.S. sugar companies to gobble up Puerto Rican land. In 1917, the U.S. responded to local pressure for independence by declaring Puerto Ricans citizens of the United States. And so, the various dramatic changes in Puerto Rico before World War I drastically created unemployment levels in Puerto Rico that reached critical levels. Therefore, the American entry into World War I created labor shortages in many industries on the mainland. Consequently, it forced the United States to bring more than 10,000 Puerto Rican laborers to the U.S. to work on war-related
And so, the first and second Puerto Rican migrations have been due to the economic boom here in the US. Therefore, there are some push and pull factors that directly correlate with these two migrations. Yet there are critical details of how many dictators rose to power with the help of Washington. Therefore, these claims seem to be somehow realistic because the regimes provided a “friendly” business climate for North America. Political repression was one push factor that directly affected the first Puerto Rican migration. And so, as US plantations induced themselves in Puerto Rico it created many displaced peasants because they were forced from their lands. This started when General Nelson Miles landed in the town of Guanica, in the moment of the Spanish-American War. Therefore, at that moment Puerto Ricans were promised to be liberated from Spanish colonialism. A few years after his arrival, Congress would move swiftly in securing this land as it would become the most important colony. And so, Congress passed the Foraker Act, which declared the island as US territory. Therefore, this act would become very beneficial due to the active World War I and it created a stronghold because the act authorized the president to appoint its civilian governor and top administrators for the …show more content…
The Foraker Act went beyond the Spanish as it would forbid the island from making any commercial treaties with other countries. And so, currency change fluctuated the economy in Puerto Rico as it replaced the Puerto Rican Peso with the American Dollar. At this point, the peso and land price was devaluated, which in effect made it much easier for U.S. sugar companies to gobble up Puerto Rican land. In 1917, the U.S. responded to local pressure for independence by declaring Puerto Ricans citizens of the United States. And so, the various dramatic changes in Puerto Rico before World War I drastically created unemployment levels in Puerto Rico that reached critical levels. Therefore, the American entry into World War I created labor shortages in many industries on the mainland. Consequently, it forced the United States to bring more than 10,000 Puerto Rican laborers to the U.S. to work on war-related