Introduction Reading
Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies covers people living in the United States and around the world with family roots in these three geographical locations.
What is Mexico, Central America, and South America?
This was the first European power to colonize the Americas.
What is Spain?
The citizens of this country, driven by the belief in Manifest Destiny, moved westward and eventually invaded Mexico in the war that began in 1846.
What is the United States?
Bouma was born in this state.
What is Montana?
This term refers to communities whose family and lineage are rooted in Mexico and that live in the United States.
What is Chicano/a?
The Spanish capital of California was this city, which served as the capital from 1776 under Spanish rule until the Mexican government took over in 1822, and the city remained the capital of Mexican California until 1846.
What is Monterey?
This territory attracted Anglo settlers in the early 1800s, eventually leading to tensions with Mexico and contributing to the start of the Mexican-American War.
What is Texas?
Bouma went to college at this University.
What is the University of Wyoming?
This term denotes people whose lineage is rooted in Latin America, which includes Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and South America.
What is Latina/o?
These 21 religious outposts, established by Spanish colonists between 1769 and 1823 along the California coast from San Diego to Sonoma, were built to spread Christianity and expand Spain’s influence in the New World.
What are the California Missions?
Mexico do this with the California missions after secularization in 1833.
What is redistributed the lands to settler?
This is the name of Bouma's baby.
Who is Anthony?
Some groups, including the U.S. Census, social science researchers, and journalists, primarily use the term to describe people in the United States with roots in Latin America.
What is Hispanic?
The first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was this Florida city.
What is St. Augustine?
Mexico gained Independence from Spain in this year.
What is 1821?
Name every state that Bouma has lived in as a resident.
What are Montana, Wyoming, Connecticut, and California?
This is the dominant language spoken in Brazil.
What is Portuguese?
This person was a Spanish-Tejano political and military figure of the Texas Revolution who helped to establish the independence of Texas.
Who is Juan Seguin?
He is known as the “Father of Texas” for leading the first successful American colonization of the region in the early 1820s.
Who is Stephen Austin?
Along with his Master's and Bachelor's in History, Bouma holds degree Minors in these two areas of study.
What is Gender & Women's Studies and Computer Science?