The end of the Spanish American War brought these three territories (NOT STATES) into American control.
What are The Phillipines, Puerto Rico, and Guam?
100
Argued to be the most important surrealist during her time, she is known for issuing the only surrealism manifesto out of the United States with her husband, called “New Classicism.”
Who is Helen Ludenberg?
100
The Mexican Revolution began in the year _____, and ended in the yaer _____.
What is 1910 and 1920.
100
This program brought Mexican agriculture workers into the U.S., but did not allow them a permanent status or grant them citizenship.
What is The Bracero Program?
100
This ten-year event caused lasting political, military, and cultural inferiority of Mexicans, which still lasts to this day.
What is The Mexican American War?
200
This man was president of the United States during the Mexican American War, and pushed for the purchase of New Mexico and California as part of the Treaty de Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Who is James Polk?
200
This famous Mexican painter is famous for her surrealist masterpiece “Las dos Fridas,” which was painted after her divorce from Diego Rivera.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
200
This political party was instituted in the 1920's, and has been in place since. Bases itself off of continuing "revolutions" (or changes).
What is the Institutional Recovery Party (PRI)?
200
A surrealism device that placed incongruous imagery in visual conversation, which helped convey a message. It commonly using political sittire, juxtaposition, personal desires and outlooks for a better future.
What is Photomontage?
200
This milestone event cost millions to lose their jobs, and gave Americans an excuse to call for the exportation of Mexican Americans for the sake "jobs."
(Sound familiar?)
What is The Great Depression?
300
Formally known as The Liberation Army of the South or Ejército Libertador del Sur, these men were an armed group formed in the southern Mexican state of Morelos and led by Emiliano Zapata.
Who are the Zapatistas?
300
This surrealism artist actively promoted women’s rights using symbols of modernity and juxtaposition in her photographs, and pushed the boundaries of photography beyond simple documentation.
Who is Lola Alvarez Bravo?
300
One of the most prominant generals in the Mexican Revolution, his followers were referred to as "Villistas."
Who is Pancho Villa?
300
This group was created to keep unwanted Mexican families and laborers out of the United States, and were responsible for the deportation of many legal citizens of the U.S. to Mexico.
What is the Border Patrol?
300
This word means to have to national identities, causing internal and communal conflict. Such happened after the annexation of land after the Mexican-American War.
What is Binationalism?
400
This treaty, created in 1848(!), ended the war between the U.S. and Mexico. Unfortunately, the rarely followed the entire document's clauses, despite it being in place today.
What is The Treaty de Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
The popular artistic movement that began in France beginning in 1924. Attempts to bypass the thinking mind and activate unconscious feelings.
What is Surrealism?
400
This man was in charge of Mexico for decades, and his plan to "modernize" Mexico lead to an even greater class stratification, causing revolution.
Who is Porfirio Diaz?
400
These women played a crucial role in the military campaigns of the Mexican Revolution as soldiers, cooks, nurses and caregivers. Women did so both voluntarily and through conscription where they would be taken from their communities and forced into service in the military camps.
Who are the Soldaderas?
400
This term usually refers to events that PUSHED people out of Mexico into the U.S., as well as the economic needs that PULLED Mexicans into the U.S.
What are "Push/Pull Factors?"
500
Created in 1836(!), this body of land was claimed independent after General Santa Ana's loss at the city of San Jacinto.
What is the Lone Star Republic?
500
Female surrealism artists helped set the stage for THIS MOVEMENT, by creating art that challenged established social institutions and gender boundaries.
What is the Feminist Movement?
500
The son of a lowly farmer, this man's armies generally fought in the South and has gained popularity in Chicano popular culture.
Who is Zapata?
500
Part of an agreement to U.S. involvement in the Spanish American War, this amendment was added to Cuba's government, allowing the U.S. to intervene in political affairs if "Cuba's independence was threatened."
What is The Platt Amendment?
500
This American ideology, involving both faith and nationalism, pushed Americans westward and created conflicts which eventually would lead to the Mexican-American War.