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"These Spaniards [Mexicans] are the ____ looking race of people I ever saw, don't appear more ____ than our own Indians generally. ____, ____ looking creatures." ____ ____ ____, 1835 (pg. 117)
"These Spaniards [Mexicans] are the meanest looking race of people I ever saw, don't appear more civilized than our own Indians generally. Dirty, filthy looking creatures." Captain Lemuel Ford, 1835
Who was a major leader of the independence movements in South America? (pg. 119)
Simon Bolivar
Who were the people who came from all over the world who brought destruction to the Indigenous peoples North and East of San Francisco? (pg. 129)
Gold Seekers; 49ers
What is the term still used to this day by the US Military when referring to enemy territory? (pg. 132)
Indian country
____ and ____ were part and parcel of "____" and "____." (pg. 117)
Indian hating and white supremacy were part and parcel of "democracy" and "freedom."
What was the first permanently successful national liberation movement against European colonialism in the world? (pg. 119)
France's Caribbean plantation slave colony of Haiti in 1801.
How many California Native people were exterminated by 1870 and how long did it take? (pg. 129)
More than 100,000 in 25 years.
What kind of experience was the invasion and occupation of Mexico for most US citizens? (pg. 130)
a joyful experience
"(...) What has miserable, inefficient Mexico... to do with the ___ ___ of ____ the New World with a noble race?" - Walt Whitman (pg. 118)
"(...) What has miserable, inefficient Mexico... to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?" - Walt Whitman (a populist poet of Jackson democracy)
Who founded the California Franciscan missions and what is the common modern take on them? (What are they seen as today?) (pg. 128)
Junipero Serra; nowadays they are romanticized tourist sites