I. 1848-1900 the 1 st Mexican- American Generation II. 1900-1929 Mexico Lindo Generation or Immigrant Gen. III. 1930-1964 Mexican-American Generation IV. 1965-1979 Chicano Generation V. 1980-2000 Hispanic/Latino Gen.
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Sunday Morning in the Mines by Charles Nahl
Sutter s Mill January 24, 1848 James Wilson Marshall Sam Brannan 48ers http://www.pbs.org/latinoamericans/en/watchvideos/#2365075996 35 mins-43 mins 7
Polk s Message Dec.5, 1848 8
Nativism: a policy of excluding immigrants and non-whites
Attacks on Chileans 10
The Lynching of Juanita 1851
Sonoran miner Brother killed Band of 5 Joaquins Bernardino Garica ( 3 finger jack) California Rangers capture 3 finger Jack and one of the Joaquins Joaquin Murrieta El Corrido de Joaquin Murrieta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj7irflwmm8 http://www.laits.utexas.edu/jaime/cwp4/jmg/corido.html 12
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Congressional Scales, 1850 Library of Congress 15
Compromise of 1850 California was a free state New Mexico & Utah would decide status Texas s debt and claim Ban the slave trade in Washington, D.C. Amended Fugitive Slave Act 16
Sept. 1849 Monterrey 7 californios 1849 Constitution Based on NY state s Constitution Prohibited Slavery Required laws to be published in 2 languages Granted women the right to own property
1849 California Constitution
1849 California Constitution ARTICLE XI. Sec. 21. All laws, decrees, regulations, and provisions, which from their nature require publication, shall be published in English and Spanish. 19
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo A region that for centuries had been united was suddenly split in two, dividing families and severing trade routes. Male citizens were guaranteed American rights. Indians were described as savage tribes. 21
1854 Nonwhites barred from testifying In People v. Hall the California Supreme Court Ruled that the testimony of key Chinese witnesses is inadmissible because "no Black or mulatto person, or Indian, shall be allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against a white man." Manuel Dominguez Californio, landowner, rancher Signers constitution in 1849. San Francisco in 1857 Barred from testifying 22
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Nativism 1850s, a nativist society, Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, becomes Know-Nothing Party, an important political party in New York City Know-Nothing Party in Texas involved an instigating race wars in Texas. 25
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/20 15/08/donald-trumps-immigration-principleswouldve-barred-his-owngrandfather/401600/
in 1753: "Few of their children in the country learn English. The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages.... Unless the stream of their importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us that we will not preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious." 27
A cartoon from the magazine Judge 28
Cart War 1855-1857 29
Juan El Cheno Cortina 1824-1894 Landowning family in Texas Fights against Texas Rangers, Confederates, French https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pssh-nwpbho 25 mins 30
True/False Emancipation ended slavery in the U.S. The majority of people in the South were slaveholders. Mexican-Americans fought in the U.S. Civil War. Mexican-Americans fought at Gettysburg. Mexican-Americans fought for the Confederate.
The Election of 1860 Despite so little support in the South that in many areas his name did not even appear on the ballot, Abraham Lincoln, won a decisive victory in the election of 1860. The election of the anti-slavery Republican was seen as a calculated Northern insult by many Southerners and proved to be the last straw that would lead much of the South to secede and sink the nation into civil war. 32 Copyright (c) Houghton Mifflin Company. All Rights Reserved.
Lincoln s Address Fort Sumter, in Charleston, S. C. April 12, 1861, Confederates attack Fort Sumter 33
Mexican-Americans in Civil War About 10,000 served Mostly from New Mexico Tejanos 2,500 Confederacy 950 Union First Battalion of the Native Cavalry of California Major Salvador Vallejo 470 Mexican-American 34
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Emancipation Proclamation 1863 http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html Does Emancipation Proclamation free all slaves? In which states were slaves emancipated? Which states were not covered by Emancipation Proclamation? What is the significance of the location where slaves were not emancipated? 36
Emancipation Proclamation 1863 Declared that emancipation was to be carried out in the states the were in rebellion. Secure border states Emancipation Proclamation transforms the war. The aim is no longer just to preserve the Union but to abolish slavery. 37
U.S. Civil War is the 1 st modern war Technology Weapons Taxation: Federal Income Tax 38
Attacks on Civilians 1863 Sherman s March to the Sea 39
The Story of Us - Civil War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thaiy87ij9g&list=plnisj5b_udspdwhwcqu8qzachzr04psqx&index=2 Part 2 40
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Texas Texas Brigade (4000) Major General John Bell Hood 38 battles: Antietam/Sharpsburg, Gettysburg Santos Benavides Confederate colonel 42 troops defeated 200 Union troops at Laredo 42
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New Mexico Territory First New Mexico Infantry Regiment 44
April 9, 1865 Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse in Richmond, Virginia 45
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13 th Amendment 1865 Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 47
Abolishing Slavery 1804 Haiti 1814 Uruguay 1829 Mexico 1834 U.K. 1854 Peru 1865 U.S.A 1886 Cuba 1888 Brazil 48
The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.. 49
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Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
The U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) ruled that the 14 th Amendment applies to the children of Chinese immigrants born in the U.S. 52
15 th Amendment (1870) Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 53
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Salt War 1877 Struggle for control of natural resources Spanish Communal law v.s. English Common law San Elizario, near El Paso 1877 riot, 4 dead Consequence: loss of economic influence in El Paso area 56
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Miguel Antonio Otero 1829-1882
Tierra Amarilla Land Grants
Santa Fe Ring Group of lawyers & land speculators Largest landowners in New Mexico
Las Gorras Blancas 1880s-1890s Reclamation of land Communal lands were being sold off as private lands. Hispano farmers who relied on the communal lands to raise their stock. The Gorras Blancas tore down fences, burned barns and haystacks, scattered livestock and threatened worse if justice did not prevail. http://www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/watch-videos/#2365075996 44 mins
New Mexico Constitution 1912 ARTICLE II - BILL OF RIGHTS Sec. 5. [Rights under Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo preserved.]