Pre-columbian Period

Question 1

Inca

Answer 1

• performed successful skull surgery
• they have a very advanced road system
• They had runners get fresh fish from the west coast
• were also known for making beef jerky

Question 2

Olmecs

Answer 2

• people from the land of rubber
• from golf coast of Mexico
• there most powerful animal was jaguar
• jaguar was there power and symbol
• gave us the very first team sport
• first to consume xocolati (chocolate)
• the trinity: corn, beans, and squash

Question 3

Teotihuacán

Answer 3

• teo can be define as god or energy
• from north of Mexico City
• very first city in America’s
• 5th largest city during the apex
• pyramid of the sun 3rd largest pyramid of the city

Question 4

Maya

Answer 4

• were all over Mexico and America
• they were peer astronomy, calculating the moon
• maya creates the concept

Question 5

Aztecs

Answer 5

• defeated in 1531
• factors in the conquest
• Indian allies
• superior weaponry
• the stranger effect: welcome in all the way to your temple

Question 6

First civilation merge from America?

Answer 6

Inca

Question 7

First civilation merge from South America?

Answer 7

Olmecs

Question 8

What symbol defines the olmecs

Answer 8

Colossal heads

Question 9

What do colossal beads symbolize

Answer 9

Royalty

Question 10

What are significants of Teotihuacán?

Answer 10

-first city in America and 5th largest city in the world

Question 11

What structure the land

Answer 11

Pyramid sun

Question 12

Where are Maya’s from

Answer 12

• Central America

- mayas gave us a calender and mathematics (gave us number 0)

Question 13

Factors in the conquest

Answer 13

• Diseases

- Indian allies

Question 14

Encomienda system

Answer 14

• Spaniards:born in Spain, top of church, always in top
• criollos: Spaniards born in America (here)
• mestizo:
• mulattos: Spanish and African (native Americans Indians)
• Indians:natives
• Africans:

Question 15

Who settled the southwest

Answer 15

-native Americans
Africans 
Mullatos 
Mestizos 
Criollos

Question 16

Syncretism

Answer 16

Cultural blending through conquest

Question 17

Spanish language

Answer 17

• Approximately 20% of words are from arab language

- approximately 10% of words from Indian languages

Question 18

Día de los muertos

Answer 18

90% Native American

Question 19

What was the system implemented from Spaniards

Answer 19

Encomienda system

Question 20

Which is the first settlement in the city

Answer 20

Santa Fe

Question 21

Which is the first settlemen town in California

Answer 21

SJ

Question 22

Missionization process

Answer 22

• presidios: first base built
• missions: second
• Pueblo’s: third

Question 23

Who was it that settled Florida in the southwest

Answer 23

-native Americans,, Africans, mullatos, mestizos, criollos

Question 24

WhT type of economy was here

Answer 24

Ranch economy, (Yerba buena ranch)

Question 25

What year did the Latin America be indipendent

Answer 25

1830

Question 26

WhAt is the month associates with independence

Answer 26

Septiembre

Question 27

Why did it begin with it

Answer 27

French invaded Spain

Question 28

Legacy of independence

Answer 28

- Dismantling of the caste system | - slavery outlawed

Question 29

When Texas won the American war what did they take

Answer 29

Texas

Question 30

How many Mexicans were living in

Answer 30

Hundred thousands

Question 31

What percentage lost there lands

Answer 31

90%

Question 32

Another word of Puerto Rico in America is

Answer 32

Colony

Question 33

What is the class status of Cuban exiles

Answer 33

Elites

Question 34

How many people were deported

Answer 34

1 millions | -percentage of American citizen 60%

Question 35

Bracero program

Answer 35

Second deportation operation wetback

Question 36

WhT did American G.I forum organize

Answer 36

To offer support for returning Latino veterans

Question 37

Young lords

Answer 37

Puerto tocan nationalist group

Question 38

Who ate the leader of farm workers

Answer 38

Dolores huerta and Caesar Chávez

Question 39

Chicano movement

Answer 39

- more equality | - more women power

Question 40

Hispanic

Answer 40

- word influenced late 1970 | - used by the US census 1980

Question 41

California proposition

Answer 41

- 187: 1994 undocumented - 209: 1996 action - 227: 1998 violations

Question 42

Encomienda

Answer 42

- they weren’t paid neither brought in the church | - the boss lived at the hacienda

Question 43

Santa Fe: why did they come up to Texas?

Answer 43

Why because those mountains up there, the Louisiana are going to get them

Question 44

The anza expedition

Answer 44

- why did they came up to California? The territories up there are there’s as well, they want no one to beat them to it

Question 45

Sj history

Answer 45

- the citizens wanted easy access to the Santa Clara church | - mission sj 1797 it was built, it secured in a small area of Spaniards

Question 46

Why the movement began because the French invaded Spain

Answer 46

- they were influenced by the French Revolution | - they emerge with the leaders of indipendence

Question 47

Legacy of inidpendence

Answer 47

- dismantling of the caste system - slavery outlawed - mission secularized - among oldest republics

Question 48

How were lands lost

Answer 48

California land law Mexican American war is over Gold rush

Question 49

Displacement

Answer 49

- loss of lands: half of Mexicans lost there lands - economic disenfranchisement - political disenfranchisement: when uS took over no Mexican can vote only criollos - unequal law - barrioization

Question 50

Mass deportation

Answer 50

By 1930 2 millón of Mexican came

Question 51

The bracero program

Answer 51

- once they got to the American official they were asked to show Their hands if they were working hands if not they had to be sent back

Question 52

Social movements

Answer 52

- they are fighting for social justice, nothing higher nor lower - type of group action