Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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…

In the film, The Quest for a Homeland, it focuses on two figures who each wanted to reclaim the Southwest in their way. Rodolfo Gonzales, better known as “Corky,” from Denver, Colorado was successful in rallying the youth of the Chicano Movement. His poem, I am Juaquin, inspired a national community of Latinos. His encouragement to gather and fight for change in communities inspired the youth. The youth responded by fighting for issues they cared about, specifically pushing for education reform.…

school system that would ultimately pull Native Americans away from their communities and cultures to aid in the Americanization process. Furthermore, in nearly the same span of time, the situation with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 that ended the Mexican-American War arises. This treaty was an act that ultimately stripped many Mexican-Americans away from their culture and language in a similar fashion as Native Americans with the Civilization Fund Act. In both situations, an American…

In the convention jointed between the US and France, Article II states that “the US shall create a stock of eleven million at an interest of 6 per cent annually in return for the cession of the province of Louisiana” (Louisiana Purchase Treaty). France’s sale to the US allowed them access just east of the Rocky Mountains and a clear route vertically from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to Canada. This acquisition served as an early expansion and led to the Lewis and Clark expedition. This…

Oregon was an extensive region lying west of the Rocky Mountains. Spain relinquished its claims to Oregon with the Transcontinental Treaty. John Quincy Adams, in 1819, acquired Florida from Spain and gave up its claims to Texas under the Louisiana Purchase. After Russia gave up their rights to Oregon, Britain and the United States battled for the territory. Daniel Webster and Lord Ashburton…

that missouri would be a slave state and maine would become a free state and slavery would be destroyed above 36,30 line. Another act , in this case it’s is a treaty that provides peace with other countries. This treaty would be the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in document 5 there is a map shading some land, that land was acquired from the treaty which brought in texas,oregon,and the beautiful california. This caused some tension because no one knew what to do with these states, the north and…

When the California gold rush began on 1848; many immigrants move to California from elsewhere in United State and from other countries. These immigrants have different race and ethnicity like Irish, Germs, Chinese, and Latinos. Chinese and Mexican were hard and cheap workers that employers liked that they work for them. Nevertheless many white immigrants look for Chinese and Mexicans like a threat in economics and racism aspect. Whites immigrants demanding that Chinese and Mexicans need to pay…

starts our trip. Spain took over Mexico in 1500. The people of Mexico called the new land “New Spain”. Spain took the people of the land, Mayas and Aztecs, into slavery. There was a man named Father Hidalgo,Father of the nation, who helped begin the revolution. Many people agreed with Father Hidalgo, he lead about 90,000 men from all over “New Spain” to battle against Spain.The Mexico won it’s independence from Spain in September 16,1810. Many people think that Mexico’s independence day is on…

The Mexican American War The topic is the Mexican American war. Some of the people who were involved were Zachary Taylor, James K. Polk, and Robert F. Stockton. Many battles took place in the Mexican American war. It was a war that Mexico lost. It lasted two years from 1846 to 1848. The Mexican American war was so important in American history because we won what is known today as New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Texas, and western Colorado which Is part of the western expansion.…

First, the Mexican-American war, from 1846 to 1848, began because of the goal of western expansion and expanding slavery into the new states gained. Consequently, over 2,000 died in battle, while 11,000 were killed by disease. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1848, ended the war and granted to the US all Mexican territories from Texas to California. After this war, David Wilmot brought forth the Wilmot Proviso, which suggested that all land acquired from Mexico should be free. The…