Food
What is Tex-Mex?
the combination of texan and Mexican culture/food
What is irrigation?
A way of getting water “artificiality“ to crops during a drough.
When is Cinco de Mayo celebrated?
The 5th of may.
When did the California Gold Rush start?
1849
Who was the lowest worker?
the plaster/herder
How would some women grind corn?
they would do it in the same manner as how the Mexicanos made tortilla.
What was the first citrus fruits the Mexicano brought to the East?
lemons, limes, and oranges
What is the “corrido”
Mexican narrative folk ballad
what are the 3 waves of mining in the West?
gold, silver, and copper
Who was the highest worker?
the patron/owner of the herds
What main foods did Mexico bring to Europe? (At least name 2)
corn, tomatoes, chocolate, and peanuts
Where was the first irrigation techniques created?
Spain and North Africa
who Introduced most of the Mexican dances?
by enslaved Africans from Mexico
What was known as “riffles”?
barriers that were set across the river to catch gold.
what two sheep were raised in Spain?
The merino and churro
When did the Spanish conquered Mexico?
1521
Where was the water backed up behind?
a dam
Who is “Our Lady of Guadalupe”?
the patron saint of Mexico
By 1940, Arizona mines had produced How much money with copper?
$3 billion
the Spanish governor of New Mexico once owned How many sheep?
2 million
Who became one of the first American colonizers to settle in California?
William Heath Davis
When settlers first came, where did the Puebloans start irrigating?
Rio Grande Valley
How is the instrument, castanets, used?
They are small pieces of wood that goes on your palms, which are clicked together.
The gold came from veins of…
quartz rock
between 1862 and 1880 the U.S. wool production increased from 5 million to…
20 million