Hidalgo County

According to the Texas Tribune, Texas is the highest in the nation in uninsured households. The Texas Tribune also shows that in almost all counties that run along the border, most of them fall in the 30-40 percent uninsured category. To me, that is highly disturbing. I definitely take my insurance for granted, writing this has really shed light on how blessed I truly am. To think about not having…

In addition, thousands of individuals who lived in the new land acquired by the United States were Mexicans. In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, these individuals were given the option to automatically become United States citizens, which included all of the rights that Caucasian Americans were endowed with. Consequently, the new American citizens were considered white Americans under the…

This includes the Louisiana Purchase, the Missouri Compromise, the Indian Removal Act, the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. However, this was not the first time in the history the United States…

Literary history is a topic that deals with the assessment of literature from the different historical period. Literature can be categorized into different historical periods and genres, history from various eras have different characteristics in that their features, common assumptions and writing norms will vary from one literature period to another. Literary history in literature helps classify literature and work of art into different historical contexts as well as different characteristics…

absolute communitarianism proclaimed.” (Sandos, 9). The events of the Plan unfolded in a most unfavorable way for the Mexican Revolutionaries as time went on. The first time that American authorities heard word of the plan was after Deputy Sheriff of Hidalgo County, Tom Mayfield, arrested Basilio Ramos in McAllen, Texas, and discovered he was carrying suspicious documents. Word spread quickly and soon, while Europe was engaged in a roaring World War, Germany took an interest in the…

Before I start talking about the Chicano Civil rights movement I would like establish what a Chicano Is. A Chicano is a person with descendants of Mexican ancestors but not born in Mexico but in the United State’s. Till this day People have misconceptions about Chicanos, for example they are immigrants’ from Mexico or South America, or they are the same as Hispanics and Latinos but when in reality these groups are very different. Chicanos also struggle within their own culture according to a…

To be a natural born or naturalized citizen of the United States is regarded by most as a privilege, because for many immigrants, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are best accomplished in this country than those they leave behind. After all, the United States is built on these moral principles, and afforded to anyone willing to exercise these values. On the other hand, America is also built from the tired, sore, and bleeding hands of men, women, and children who, with promises of a…

government warning the United States than any attempt to annex Texas would lead to war. Even after these circumstances the process of annexation was quickly started by the United States after the 1844 election of Polk. James K. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in the year 1795. Polk is sometimes referred to as the first dark…

African-Americans and three Hispanics. There were five white people executed by Texas in 2013. Two people were executed from Dallas County, two from Harris County, two from Hidalgo County, two from Lubbock County, one from Leon County, one from Brazos County, one from Victoria County, one from McLennan County, one from Jefferson County, one from Cherokee County, one from Navarro County and one from Smith…

Highway 281 and State Highway 107 in the south-central part of the county. The townsite was named after Dennis B. Chapin, another of its promoters. Chapin 's involvement in a homicide caused a change of name in 1911 to Edinburg, in honor of the birthplace in Scotland of John Young. The town grew slowly to some 800 inhabitants…