Anglo Over Mexican
Out of the two groups discussed in this section, this group overall had a disadvantage socially, economically, and politically to the other.
What are Mexicans?
This is the reason that Mexicans and Japanese people ended up protesting together and making JMLA.
What are unfair wages?
Most of the Mexican immigrants who were coming to America were working in this working class.
What is the Agricultural Labor Class?
The name of the segregated neighborhoods Mexicans often lived in.
What are barrios?
(Refer to image 1 on the manual) Based on this image, what is this specific battle being fought in the Mexican American war?
What is the battle of Buena Vista?
The California Gold Rush happened this year.
What is the year 1848?
The year of the Mexican worker's most powerful show of force and protest for equal wages, eight-hour workday, free hospitalization and other benefits
What is the year 1903?
This was the age range of most of the Mexican's coming into America.
What is between the ages fifteen and forty-four?
This term was used to describe the growth of the Mexican population in America.
What is Mexicanization?
What is systematic racism?
The American court was dominated by this group which made it hard for Mexicans to keep their rights. For example, keeping their land.
What are Anglos?
AFL is an acronym for this national organization.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
What was the Mexican Revolution?
Mexicans were targets of this program during the Great Depression that was meant to return them to their country of origin.
What is repatriation?
(Refer to image 2 on the manual.) Was is the main reason Mexicans immigrated to America.
What is economic opportunity?
Anglos ended up owning this fraction of Mexican's land due to having advantages in court over Mexicans.
What is four-fifths?
In 1903, Mexicans and this other ethnic group formed the JMLA to protest the wage cuts
Who are the Japanese?
Mexican's movement to the North was boosted by railroads that were built in 1895 which linked these two cities.
What were the cities of Eagle Pass, Texas and Durango, Mexico?
Mexicans were only able to shop in Anglo parts of town on this day.
What is Saturday?
(Refer to image 4 on the manual) The most prominent and influential civil rights leader for Mexican Americans during the Cold War era.
Who is Dr. Héctor P. García?
A year after the Gold Rush of 1848, what was the ratio of the Anglos and the Mexicans when Anglos started moving into the Mexican's territory
What is 100,000 Anglos to 13,000 Mexicans?
The name of the self-help associations that helped the Mexican's during this time to give the Mexicans loans, money for hospitals, etc.
Who are the mutualistas?
With the increasing population of Mexican's in America in between the years 1900 and 1930, this is the estimate of the rise in Mexican's in the southwest
What is around 375,000 to 1,160,000 people?
The book "Barrio Boy" was written by this person.
Who is Ernesto Galarza?
(Refer to image 3 on the manual) The estimated amount of Mexicans that were military service members during WWII.
What is 350,000 to 500,000?