Latino History
The ever faithful Islands of Spain included Puerto Rico and ______.
What is Cuba
Mexicans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans
Which are the three largest Latino groups in The United States?
The person of mixed Indigenous and Spanish heritage
What is mestizo?
First ever Afro-Latina on a quarter. 3-time Grammy Award winner, 4-time Latin Grammy Award winner.
Who is Celia Cruz?
This staple of Mexican food is used to make Masa, a dough for tamales, tortillas or gorditas as well as many other foods
What is corn?
Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, and Oklahoma.
Which U.S. states once belonged to Mexico?
An American legislative proposal for a process for granting residency status to qualifying foreign immigrants who entered the United States as minors. It would first grant conditional residency and, upon meeting further qualifications, permanent residency.
What is the Dream Act?
American-born person of Mexican descent. The term was first introduced in the 1960s
What is Chicano?
A K'iche Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Noble Peace Prize laureate.
Who is Rigoberta Menchú Tum?
Prepared with bread dough and queso blanco (white cheese) in the middle it is formed into a breadstick and then usually fried. It is one of the most popular Venezuelan and Colombian snackfoods at parties especially weddings
What is a tequeño?
Which 3 U.S. cities have the greatest population of Puerto Ricans?
What is New York, Philadelphia and Chicago?
The Arizona law which gave police the right to inquire about the citizenship status of people they suspect may be undocumented
What is SB 1070?
The racial category that includes all Latinos
What is none?
This Mexican American astronaut revolutionalized space travel when he suggested tortillas be brought in the shuttle, providing a nutrient-dense and lightweight alternative to bread.
Who is Rodolfo Neri Vela?
Milk-based dessert made of beaten egg whites and sugar to create a cream similar to dulce de leche, originally from Spain and popularized in Lima, Peru
What is suspiro de limeña?
A peace treaty signed between Mexico and the United States that gave the United States 1.3 million acres after the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
President who signed immigration reform into law that legalized the status of some 3 million people.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Enslaved Africans in Latin America who escaped from slavery and established their own self-sustaining and self-governing communities
Who are the maroons?
American labor leader and civil rights activist and co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association. The originator of the phrase "Sí, se puede".
Who is Dolores Huerta?
Daily Double. This may sound "smelly" but it is a traditional and very popular lunch dish in Cuba. It is made by boiling plantains and water, mashing with a fork and mixing with chicken stock and Sofrito. It is similar to a common centuries-old traditional dish made in West and Central African countries
What is fufu de plátano?
Year that U.S. extended citizenship to Puerto Ricans
What is 1917?
Latin American country with most refugees accepted to the U.S. in 2021
What is El Salvador?
The term Hispanic does not recognize this aspect of Latino/a identity
What is Indigeneity?
Chilean author inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and who President Barack Obama awarded the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is Isabel Allende?
Country where tomatoes originated
What is Mexico?