Chapter 14 Mexican Americans Flashcards
The Mexican American experience is seen more as a
consciousness
The Mexican American experience is a more ____ than the Native American Indian
diverse experience
Spanish Colonalization is unique because of the
mixing of Spanish and Native Cultures
Spanish _____ to spanish explorers and settlers. Blood becomes mixed with native american indians that that becomes mexico.
grant land
People who came to this country in the 1800s, 1900s, and yesterday from Mexico all
fall into the guise of Mexican American
The Spanish involvement with Mexico goes back to
the 16th century
In the 16th century the Spanish ___ and ____ of Mexico
invasion and conquest
The 16th century conquest was a combination of ___ and ____ expansion
military and religious expansion
The Spanish in this conquest were looking for
riches, trade, anything to bring back to Spain to increase Spain’s power in Europe
The church was looking to convert people
to Catholicism
The Native American people that the Spanish encountered were conquered by __ and ___
disease and violence
Catholic Churches used the ____ to spread Catholicism to Native populations.
Missions
The military was very important in this Colonilization process because the King of Spain utilized __ to give to soldiers
land grants
The Hacienda were ___ given to minor nobels
vast land grants, huge estates
The Estancia was ___ not as big as a hacienda
a large landed estate, usually a cattle ranch
The Racheria was
the workers quarters of a Rancho-the Village
The Spanish saw the americas as a land of the ___
riches
The California Mission system was carefully selected by the _____
Spanish missionaries
Criteria for Spanish missionaries when choosing where to place a mission
good supplies of water, fertile soils for growing crops, had to be located near Native population centers
Mission farms and ranches _____ the Indians’ traditional food-gathering grounds.
destroyed
The Mission farms and ranches destroyed the Native Indians’ food sources because
then they would come to the mission for nourishment
California has ___ missions located along the coast of California.
21
The California Missions were built from 1769-____
1823
There was a diverse mixture of people in what became Mexico because where every the Spanish colonized they allowed ____
intermarriage
The cowboy began with the
Spanish
Pueblos were ____ soldiers at the presidios.
civilian towns that grew the food supply for the
The Spanish government at the pueblos offered _____ in order to attract settlers
free land, livestock, farming equipment, annual allowance for the purchase of clothing and other supplies, the settlers were exempt from all taxes for five years.
The first California Pueblo was established in San Jose in
1777
1781 Los Angeles was formed and _____ founding families made up more than half of the original settlers of LA
African American
1810-1821
Mexico becomes an independent establishment from Spain
The US perception of Mexico was tainted from the 16th century
the english development; the english and the spanish did not get along; the english painted a negative picture of the spanish
Discuss why it is important to understand the concept of “Diversity of Experience” for the Mexican American both in a historical and contemporary analysis.
a
Discuss the concept of agriculture and the Migrant Labor Cycle in relationship to the Mexican American experience.
a
Utilizing the Domination Model of Race Relations, analyze the Mexican American Experience.
a
Between 1929 and 1935 _____ Mexicans were repatriated (deported) to Mexico, most without court hearings.
four hundred thousand
In 1845 the United States annexes Texas. This action leads to _______
the Mexican American War.
