Mexican War of Independence

makes it inevitable to face the problem of integration and independence. In the perspective of integration, Puerto Ricans regard Pentecostalism as an American value that can support their upward mobility[ Gaston Espinosa, Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University press, 2014), 164.] and prevent them from being stuck in poverty and colonial tradition; in the perspective of independence, a lack of sovereign rights in the mainland instigates…

The Manson murders as well as the Sleepy Lagoon murder were both war time murders that involved outsiders who were seen as a threat to the American way of life as both hippies and Mexican American’s rejected societal norms through their unique attire, rebellious attitudes, and vehement resistance or support to war. As they walked to their own beat, hippies in the 60’s did everything other than the norm, by creating their own perspectives and lifestyles and rejecting the American values that had…

European colony of Jamestown, Virginia in 1622, they killed the Europeans but took the African slaves as captives and gradually integrated them into their tribes. This process would continue throughout the European and Native American war. With the continuous wars with the Europeans, there became a shortage of Native American men. Native American women turned to freed or runaway African men. The African men would marry into the tribes and be accepted. Children born from the union would follow…

Bigfoot Wallace was a texan, a texan who fought for texas independence. The son of Andrew and Jane Ann, born in Lexington virginia on April 3, 1817, standing at 6 foot 2 and weighing 240 lbs,This texas ranger had quite a big foot. Bigfoot wallace was a texas ranger as you know, he got his name from his, extremely large foot, beleive it or not his foot was actually 11 ¾ of an inch long, but let's get back to the facts, for a while he tried farming in lagrange But that didn't go so well, then…

extended into the early stages of World War I. Wilson’s new direction in American foreign policy began with the riddance of dollar diplomacy, which was diplomacy between nations regulated by monetary necessity and foreign loans. Additionally, the Panama Canal Tolls Act of 1912 was repealed which let shippers from the United States to not pay the tolls for the canal, and the Jones Act in 1916 gave full territorial status to the Philippines, who could then gain independence when a stable…

Throughout most other countries independence came from the top down. Since, for the most part, the upper class would see the most change once they broke away from Spain, the lower classes were not the main advocates for a revolution. In Mexico the revolutions were led by priests, first by…

book’s focus is mostly on Mexican/Mexican-American/Chicana woman the overall empowerment woman of all races and ethnicities had during this era was just powerful and was history in the making. Personally, I feel more connected to the Pachuca women, everything they had to endure only for the desire of freedom and control of their lives. Despite some negatives, this era proved to have one of the greatest multiracial interactions. Undoubtedly, because this was an era filled of war, both men and…

to the Mexican-American War was a generously peaceful country. Expansion into the westward land was seen as one of the greatest opportunity for economic growth. It allowed families who had never been able to own land the opportunity of home ownership. The westward expansion was acquired through many forms ranging from the peaceful settlements in Oregon, to the discovery of gold in California. Yet, much of the expansion came from the dispute of bounders with Mexico that lead to the Mexican…

Latin America has faced unusual growing pains during its course of history. Its destination of independence from European control was recognized and was hastily sought after at the onset of the nineteenth century. The people of Latin America would bring to fruition many of the very first constitutional republics that the world had seen with such racially and cultural diverse populations. A sense of nationalism was cultivated not along the lines of social status or race as we have seen…

the idea of slavery divided the Union in the nineteenth century. The election of Abraham Lincoln as the president in 1860 triggered a huge turmoil within the Union starting with the secession of some slave states in the south to the historical Civil War in America. Sectionalism was one of the main reasons why the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was created. The southern states relied profoundly on slavery with their economic growth, while the northern states were determined to abolish that evilness.…