Californio

The Jacksonians 1.Explain the scheme that unfolded in the “corrupt bargain.” -The Election of the 1824 was very controversial. There were four Democratic Republican candidates running for the Presidency. Andrew Jackson had the most votes, but did not have the majority. Due to this the House had to decided the winner of the election. The election was influence by manipulation. John Q. Adams became President and Clay was the Secretary of State. Jackson was very outraged and called the…

The Evolution of Mexican-American Family Values My Family by Gregory Nava follows the Sanchez family through three generations. It follows their very humble beginnings in post revolution Mexico to modern day California. The family grows together and goes through many trials and tribulations but remains close through it all. Through many deaths and tragedies, the family learns to lean on each other and evolve to make their day to day lives work. Since the turn of the century the…

Mexican Americans who had been Americanized Pocho. Greasers were a term used for both Mexican born and Mexican Americans. The divide between the two groups varied not only from class to class, but also from region to region and from state to state. Californios exhibited biases toward the Mexicans and did not relate to them politically, socially, or…

On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold at a mill where a group of men erecting for John A. Sutter south of the American river. Even though Sutter tried to keep it se-cret until he could secure and protect his vast estates from Mexican land grants, California’s newspaper already revealed his findings only two months later in March. First news reached the east coast in August by the New York Herald, next month the word from the United States Counsel in Monterrey, Thomas O. Larkin,…

skilled and useful, able to do labor that upholds the quality of the cattle and ranches of the Spanish upper class. Don Mariano states the availability of native labor without hesitance, as using the indigenous for their labor is the norm in the Californios society, and Mariano wishes to try and convince the Anglo-Americans to partake in the system in order to reinforce it. The desire for reinforcement comes from the resistance that the indigenous practice in eschewing labor for leisure. The…

Almost everyone has heard about the California Gold Rush at some point, it brings up images of hermits panning for gold in a river. In actuality the California Gold Rush is much more than that. Many things throughout American would not be the same without the California Gold Rush. The California Gold Rush caused a huge boom in civilization in the western part of the United States of America, because of it there was a boom a population growth in a short period of time. It caused many of the major…

“10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America” by Steven M. Gillon is an extraordinarily written book about the course of history that swept through America. The author covered crucial topics that covers the span of American history from settlement to recent past and reveals the great diversity of our national experience. Of all the 10 chapters, I chose three that made a more significant appearance to me. The three chapters include: “Gold Rush”, “Murder at Fair: The assassination of President…