This term was used instead of Hispanic due to the colonial connection with Spain
What is Latino?
This was the border between Mexico and Texas that the Mexicans favored.
What is the Nueces River?
This labor system was established in the 1500s to reward Conquistadors with land and the labor of indigenous peoples that lived there.
What was the encomienda system?
This event is known as Mexico’s declaration of independence.
What is the Grito de Delores?
This group of Texas lawmen developed a reputation for vigilantism in the early 1900s.
Who are the Texas Rangers?
The investigating, punishing, and preventing of perceived criminal offenses without legal authority.
What is vigilante justice?
This diplomatic message between Germany and Mexico in 1917 was a reason for the US to enter World War I.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
He was the Spanish governor of Cuba that initially supported Hernan Cortez, but later withdrew his support fearing a loss of power
Who is Diego de Velazquez?
This American impresario led the “Old 300” to colonize Texas in the 1820s.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
He was the Aztec leader that confronted Hernan Cortez in 1519.
Who was Montezuma?
This is a term for a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, and/or language.
What is ethnicity?
In this treaty, Mexico was forced to cede almost 55% of their territory to the United States in 1848.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This disease is thought to have weakened the Aztecs and contributed to the eventual Spanish conquest.
What is smallpox?
Holiday celebrated to remember Mexico’s victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
What is Cinco de Mayo?
This Mexican revolutionary leader advocated for land reform and rights for peasants.
Who is Emiliano Zapata?
This was the primary reason Americans were migrating to Texas in the 1820s.
What is cheap land?
The U.S. states of New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado were part of this land acquisition in 1848.
What is the Mexican Cession?
She was an invaluable translator for Cortez during his conquest of the Aztecs.
Who is Malinche?
He was president of Mexico when Texas rebelled in 1835.
Who is Antonio de Lopez de Santa Anna?
The first and only monarch of the short lived Mexican Empire of 1822-1823.
Who is Augustine de Iturbide?
This was an important geographic cause of the Pueblo Revolt.
What was a drought?
This event in Mexico caused a tenth of the Mexican population to flee to the United States in the early 1900s.
What was the Mexican Revolution?
This was one of the Maya’s greatest innovations, which displays their advances in mathematics and astronomy.
What is the Mayan Calendar?
As president of Mexico from 1884-1911, he worked to develop and modernize the Mexican economy, often with the help of the rich and foreigners.
Who is Porfirio Diaz?
This Latina professor is a leading authority and advocate bringing attention and awareness to the anti-Mexican violence of the early 20th century.
Who is Monica Munoz Martinez?