Mexican Americans 1848 to the Present The American

Mexican Americans 1848 to the Present

The American (Mexican War) • • • John Tyler 1841 -1844 John Calhoun Henry Clay Lewis Cass James K. Polk 18441848 • Liberty Party • James G. Birney • “Spot Resolutions” • Battle of Buena Vista 1847 • General Winfield Scott • Colonel Stephen Kearney • General Zachery Taylor • John C. Fremont • Nicolas P. Trist

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 • Gadsden Purchase 1853

1848 -1900 • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 • “Chicano” • “Californios” • Land Act of 1851 • Joaquin Murietta • Gadsden Purchase 1853

• Geronimo • Mutualista (mutual aid society) • “Hispanos” • “Santa Fe Ring” • “Gorras Blancas” (White Caps) • Vaqueros • Texas Rangers • Juan Cortina • • “Cortina War” Corridos Gregorio Cortez El Paso del Norte (El Paso, Ciudad Juarez) • Salt War (1877)

Corrido of Gregorio Cortez • They went around asking questions about half an hour afterward; They found out that the wrongdoer had been Gregorio Cortez. Now they have outlawed Cortez throughout the whole of the state; Let him be taken, dead or alive, for he has killed several men. Then said Gregorio Cortez, with his pistol in his hand, "I don't regret having killed him; what I regret is my brother's death"…The Americans were coming; they were whiter that a poppy From the fear that they had from Cortez and his pistol…. They let loose the bloodhound so they could follow the trail; But trying to overtake Cortez was like following a star…. From Belmont he went to the ranch, where they succeeded in surrounding him, Quite a few more that three hundred, but he jumped out of their corral. When he jumped out of their corral, according to what is said here, • • • Gregorio Cortez, with his pistol in his hand, "Don't run, you cowardly rinches, from a single Mexican"…. Now he has met a Mexican; he says to him haughtily, "Tell me the news; I am Gregorio Cortez. They say that because of me many people have been killed; so now I will surrender, because such things are not right. "…All the rinches [Texas Rangers] were coming, so fast that they almost flew, Because they were going to get the ten thousand dollars that were offered. When they surrounded the house, Cortez appeared before them: "You will take me if I'm willing but not any other way. "Then said the Major Sheriff, as if he was going to cry, "Cortez, hand over your weapons; we do not want to kill you. " Then said Gregorio Cortez, shouting to them in a loud voice, "I won't surrender my weapons until I am in a cell"….

The Great Migration 1900 -1930 • Immigration Act of 1924 • Contratistas (Labor Contractors) • Ellis Island • The Depression 19301940 • East Los Angeles • “The Mexican Problem” • Repatriation • I. W. W. (International Workers of the World) • “Bisbee Deportations”

• Carey Mc. Williams, Factories in the Fields • Union de Trabajadores de la Valle Imperial • Pachucos • Calo • Luis Valdes, Zoot Suit • Sleepy Lagoon 1942 • Zoot Suit Riots 1943 • Zoot Suit:

• Bracero Program • The G. I. Forum 1948 • “Operation Wetback” • Dr. Hector P. Garcia 1954 • L. U. L. A. C. (League of United Latin-American Citizens) 1921 • Mendez vs. Westminster School District of Orange County 1947

The Chicano Movement 1975 • Chicano • Ruben Salazar • United Farm Workers (UFW) • Cesar Chavez

• Delano Strike 1965 • Reies Lopez Tijerina • Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants) • Rodolfo (“Corky”) Gonzales • La Crusada Para la Justicia • La Raza Unida Party • Yo Soy Joaquin

• “Blowouts” • MECHA (Movimiento Estudiantil de Aztlan) • Brown Berets

• Chicano Moratorium Committee