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What does JMLA stand for?
Japanese Mexican Labor Association
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Cesar Chavez
American Farm worker, labor leader, civil right activist, & co-founded the NFWA, (later became the UFW)
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Reyes Tijerina
Led the stuggle to restore New Mexican Land Grants, also led movement in the Chincano Movement, 1967 Tierra Amarilla
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LA correspondent killed in the LA Chicano Morotorium?
Ruben Salazar
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Corky Gonzales
Boxer, poet, political activist, Mexican American equal rights activist, considered a founder of the Chicano Movement
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What led to the 1910 Mexican Revolution?
Frustration & anger from peasants due to the corrupt Mexican gov
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How many Mexican Americans served in Congress by 1967?
4
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What was the title of the documentary we saw on Chicanos?
Chicano: History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement
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What was the main diff btwn the Mex in CA & their counterparts in TX?
Mex in CA cud vote & the Mex in TX cudnt
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Signifigance of La Raza Unida?
1st chicano political party formed in TX
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Signifigance of the MEx population in Santa Barbara in 1850s?
Mexican voter population dominated local elections
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General Vallejo?
He represented Mexican authority in the region of CA, north of San Francisco
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What was contained in the article X of the original version of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
It guaranteed protection of all prior pending titles of property of every description
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What was the Greaser Act?
Anti-Vagrancy act: defined vargrants as all persons who were commonly known as greasers or the issues of spanish or indian blood & who went armed & were not peaceable & quiet persons
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Explain the Irony of the Irish immigrants during the war against Mexico? (Irish Question)
Many Irish immigrants served in the US Armed forces & ironically the Irish had been pushed from their homeland by British colonialism & here they found themselves becoming Americans by participating in the conquest of the Southwest
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Explain the doctrine of manifest destiny
a belief in american anglo-saxon superiority
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What was the origin of the Bear Flag Republican?
The flag contained a grizzly bear facing a lone star suggesting an analogy to the Texas republic. To Mexicans, the bear was a theif & a plunder of their cattle.
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Explain the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexico accepted the Rio Grande as the Texas border & ceded the Southwest territories to the US for over 1 million sq miles costing $15 million
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Name 3 missions in CA?
Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, San Francisco
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In what year did the US annex Texas?
1845
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What was the importance of Congreso Mexicanista?
It was the State-wide convention in 1911 in which several Texas mutualists came together calling for ethnic solidarity
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Who was Samuel Houston?
...In 1845, after annexation of TX, Mexico broke off diplomatic relations with the US
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Who was Stephen Austin?
He urged countrymen to "Americanize" Texas. 175 Texas rebels barricaded themselves in the Alamo & initiated hostilities for what would become known as the Lone Star Republic. The Mexican gov't declared this illegal & sent troops to supress the rebelion
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Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
He led the Mexican soldiers to reclaim the Alamo & killed most of the Alamo & most of the rebels, including Bowie & Day Crocket. Some Mexican traitors were killed too.
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What was the signifigance of the Alamo?
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