People and Places
The name of the park beneath the Coronado Bridge that is an important urban anchor. It has a lot of murals.
What is Chicano Park?
A civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican Americans in the U.S. also known as "El Movimiento."
What is The Chicano Movement?
This war between the United States and Mexico led to Mexico ceding 55% of its territory to the U.S.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The year the Spanish conquered the Aztecs.
What is 1521?
An outfit many young Mexican-Americans wore during WW2.
What is a Zoot Suit?
THE PERFORMER FOR THE 2026 SUPERBOWL HALF TIME SHOW!!!!
WHO IS BAD BUNNY?!?!??! <3 hajahajaha *laughs in spanglish*
The name of the organization that advocated for the creation of Ethnic Studies in 1968.
What is the Third World Liberation Front?
A binational guest worker program between the United States and Mexico that started during WWII.
What is The Bracero Program?
DAILY DOUBLE: The mixing of Indigenous and Spanish people and culture.
What is mestizaje?
From March 1-8, 1968, around 15,000 students walked out of their classrooms in protest.
What are the Blowouts/Walkouts?
The band that sings the song "Somos Mas Americanos"
Who are the Tigres del Norte?
The woman who started the UFW and led the Grape Strikes. She lived 96 years and passed away in October of 2026.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
DAILY DOUBLE: The Mexican Revolution(1910) ended the decades-old rule of this dictator. During his regime, 95% of Mexico’s population was landless, and he encouraged foreign investment.
Who is Porfirio Diaz?
A woman enslaved by Cortés who spoke Náhuatl and Spanish and served as an interpreter and guide.
Who is La Malinche?
The name of the city where Becky G grew up and raps about in "Becky From The Block"
What is Inglewood?
DAILY DOUBLE: The name of the artist featured in Bad Bunny's Coachella set
Who is Jose Feliciano?
The number of days the occupation for Chicano Park lasted.
What is 12 days?
1920s: A struggle in central and western Mexico in response to the secularization articles in the Mexican Constitution of 1917. About 80,000 lives lost.
What is The Cristero War?
The name of the Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people that ruled the Aztec empire.
Who are the Mexica?
This teacher inspired students to organize the East L.A.Blowouts in 1968.
Who is Sal Castro?
In 1966, he founded an organization in his hometown of Denver, Colorado: La Crusada Para la Justicia (the Crusade for Justice)
Who is Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez?
The three high schools that were a part of the East LA Blowouts (1968)
What are Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Garfield?
This President offered to buy California from Mexico, but the Mexican Government refused to meet. He then sends General Taylor to the disputed territory.
Who is James K. Polk?
A word to describe detribalized indigenous people that the Spanish captured and/or traded. They worked as indentured servants.
What are Genízaros?
The name of the correctional facility that the young women arrested during the Sleepy Lagoon Trial were sent to.
What is Ventura School for Girls?