Mexican American

The Mexican-American War: Was it Justifiable? “The most dramatic event in the history of relations between Mexico and the United States took place a century and a half ago.”(Doc. 3) These words perfectly describe the conflict between our countries, a war over territory, misunderstandings and the breaking of laws. A debate still held today, is whether or not America was justified in declaring war on Mexico, yet there is more supporting info leaning towards it being an injustice. From simply…

The Mexican American War was the first war that the United States primarily fought on foreign soil of which led to great amounts of bloodshed at the detriment of Mexico. The United States originally provoked the war as U.S. president James K. Polk set his eyes on expanding west as he believed in “Manifest Destiny”. The War was a result of the United States Annexation of Texas. Texas was its own Republic from 1836 through 1845 after winning it war for Independence. Mexico although never…

In chapter nine, Menchaca brings us to the present with an overview of the racial laws affecting Mexican Americans in the twentieth century. Such racial laws included; marriage, citizenship, de jure segregation, and affirmative action. Menchaca discussed the common struggles facing Mexican Americans, African Americans, and other people of color. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendments were created and passed by the federal government. The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery and involuntary…

The trajectory of U.S. foreign relations was well in place prior to the Mexican-American war, but was pushed further by the actions that took place therein. America was guided by a resurgence of the Monroe Doctrine under President Polk. This resurgence and in the spirit of Manifest Destiny, the American people, most notably expansionist democrats, pushed to expand the nation westward, and take control of the lands from coast to coast. This control was gained with a victory over Mexico in the…

answer the questions that follow. 1. Describe events that explain the border differences between these maps. Use information from the maps and the lesson in your response. Use complete sentences. In the first map, it shows the victory of the Americans in the American Revolution in 1783, which helped the United States expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. The second map shows the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803 from France for $15 million, which doubled the size of…

under Mexican governance in 1835. It was still part of the Mexican state of Coahuila. For a brief time, the settlers provisioned by the United States cohabited the land peacefully with the Mexican government. Conflict began when Mexican authorities began to increasingly intervene in the affairs of the American settlers. In 1826, a brief and unsuccessful rebellion started by two American brothers, known as the Fredonian Rebellion, caused the Mexican government to ban the immigration of Americans…

The Indian tribes of the Caribbean, including the Arawaks and the Tainos, did not alter their lifestyles substantially before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Throughout their thriving years, the Arawaks and the Tainos practiced consistent religious beliefs and rituals. The Arawaks and the Tainos established specific communication styles, both within their civilizations and across seas. Lastly, the Arawaks and the Tainos initiated crucial transportation systems for their people. All in all…

differed from mine. My research subject was a Mexican-American born in California. She spoke of her struggle between dealing with two conflicting cultures. On one hand she wants to be part of her family’s heritage and Mexican culture but on the other hand, she is still a teenage American girl. Coming from a family who are primarily immigrants, there is great expectation for her to represent her culture, but being born in America already makes her seem less Mexican to the native-born. When…

Andrea Escobar Final Draft 9/30/15 ANTH-202 Yingkun Topic: Mexican Americans in Chicago and how they struggle to keep their cultural alive so far away from the border. The first Mexicans that came to Chicago, came in the turn of the 20th century. Chicago had its first significant wave of immigrants in the mid to late 1910s. The first immigrants to arrive to Chicago where men who were working in semiskilled and unskilled jobs. These men at the time originated from Texas, Guanajuato, Jalisco,…

borders, came the expansion of slavery. Many groups of people were widely opposed to this expansion of slavery, and in events like the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Mexican-American War, many arguments arose regarding the moral and political effect of this expansion. The moral argument of both the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Mexican-American War, was that slavery is simply not right. The whole practice of trading, selling, and forcing humans to work, and justifying it because their skin is a…