War Against Mexico
The original name of Texas under Mexico's control
What is Tejas?
The name of the river that Mexican immigrants crossed to come to the United States
What is the Rio Grande?
He was a stuntman in Hollywood who volunteered for the army with some Jewish friends to prove that they were just as "American" as everybody else
Who was Alex Romandia?
The reason for the many protests with Mexican American's after WWll ended and many of the soldiers returned
What is discrimination against race?
Mexicans, along with all other immigrants are usually called this derogatory term due to them being foreigners in America.
What are illegal aliens?
The name that Americans' that traveled to Mexico were given
The name given to the United States, "the land of opportunity", by Mexicans
What is El Norte?
Guest workers from Mexico to the U.S. who worked mostly on farms for specific period of time
What are braceros?
The name of the civil rights organization that helped Mexican Americans with their protests.
What is the GI Forum in Corpus Christi, Texas?
The United States was home to this many undocumented immigrants by the early twenty-first century.
What is twelve million?
State that had a great migration of Americans due to a gold rush
What is California?
The name of the Mexican American world made up of shacks and dilapidated houses
What is Barrios?
Amount of Mexican Americans enlisted in WWll
What is around a half a million people?
The amendment that promised equal protection under the law for everyone
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Law that made it so that corn grown with financial aid in America could be shipped to Mexico for much cheaper, ruining Mexican farmers.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Mexican Americans often formed relationships with this group of immigrants. These immigrants formed relationships with Mexicans so they could own land.
What are Indian immigrants?
A Mexican American who won a military award for capturing eight hundred Japanese soldiers.
Who is Guy Louis Gabaldon?
The name of the case that ended segregation in schools for Mexican Americans.
What is the case of Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County?
The state that passed one of the strictest laws in the nation that required all schools to check everyone's immigration status.
The US conquest of California began in a small town known as...
What is Sonoma?
The refugee that fled Northward to escape the Mexican Revolution that said "We came to the US to wait out the conclusion of the Revolution."
Who is Jesus Moreno?
Between 1941 and 1944 the number of Mexican Americans employed in the Los Angeles shipyards started at what and went to what
What is the number started from zero to 17,000 Mexican Americans?
The name of the Mexican activist who was a previous veteran and spoke up for the struggle of farm workers
Who is Cesar Chavez?
The republican and US president that said " No regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the fields for lack of harvesters." referring to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Who is Ronald Reagan?