Important Leaders
Founder of the National Farm Workers Association
Who is Cesar Chavez?
Series of 1968 protests against unequal conditions In Los Angeles School District
What is the East LA Walkouts/Chicano Blowouts?
Treaty that ended the war between the United States and Mexico in 1848.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Hired hand
What is Bracero?
Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist who was the vice- president of UFW, inspired the Chicana Movement.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
This fruit boycott, lasting from 1965-1970, successfully helped improve working conditions and fair wage for farm workers.
What is the Grape Strike?
This wave of immigration occurred in the early 20th century, happened as a result of this civil war outbreak within Mexico.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
Social and political movement of the 1960s and 1970s that brought visibility to mexican americans
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What is the Chicano Movement?
Political activist who was appointed director of Denver's War on Poverty Office. Gained national prominence through his epic poem "I am Joaquin"
Who is Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales?
300 students in Colorado were attacked by polic after this event
What is the DEnver West Walkouts?
Obama's "Yes We Can" Motto originated from this term during the Chicano Movement.
What is Sí Se Puede?
Claimed to be the original homeland of Chicanxs.
What is Aztlan?
Mexican-American educator and activist who took part in the 1968 East Los Angeles High School walkouts regarding unequal conditions.
Who is Salvador Castro?
Cesar Chavez demonstrated non-violence protest by:
What is fasting? What is organizing marches? What is boycotting marketed goods?
Program that occurred that took place during the 1930s that deported a large number of Mexican and U.S. born Mexicans as a result of the Great Depression and growing anti-Mexican sentiment.
What is the Repatriation Program?
Mexican American/ Chicano youth subculture in the 1940s/50s
What is Pachucos/Zoot Suiters?
Leader of Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), he organized Filipino farm workers in the Coachella Valley and together with the National Farm Workers Association, led a successful strike against grape growers.
Who is Larry Itliong?
Name a similarity between the Chicano Movement's tactics and those of another movement in history? (Hint: Similarities between Cesar and other leaders?)
What is Gandhi and the fasting method. What is MLKJ and the nonviolence method.
Mexicans first came to the United States through this program (Hint: emerged from a need of cheap labor during WW2)
What is the Bracero Program?
Religious figure used by the UFW as an inspiration for the farm workers movement.
What is the Virgen de Guadalupe?