Mexican Americans

1848 to the Present

The American (Mexican War)• John Tyler 1841-1844• John Calhoun• Henry Clay• Lewis Cass• James K. Polk 1844-

1848• Liberty Party• James G. Birney• “Spot Resolutions”

• Battle of Buena Vista 1847

• General Winfield Scott

• Colonel Stephen Kearney

• General Zachery Taylor

• John C. Fremont• Nicolas P. Trist

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848

• Gadsden Purchase 1853

1848-1900

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848

• “Chicano”• “Californios”• Land Act of 1851 • Joaquin Murietta

• Gadsden Purchase 1853

• Geronimo• Mutualista (mutual aid

society)• “Hispanos”• “Santa Fe Ring”• “Gorras Blancas”

(White Caps)• Vaqueros• Texas Rangers• Juan Cortina

• “Cortina War”• Corridos• Gregorio Cortez• El Paso del Norte (El

Paso, Ciudad Juarez)• Salt War (1877)

Corrido of Gregorio Cortez•

They went around askingquestions about half an hour afterward;They found out that the wrongdoerhad been Gregorio Cortez. Now they have outlawed Cortezthroughout the whole of the state;Let him be taken, dead or alive,for he has killed several men.Then said Gregorio Cortez,with his pistol in his hand,"I don't regret having killed him;what I regret is my brother's death"…The Americans were coming;they were whiter that a poppyFrom the fear that they hadfrom Cortez and his pistol….They let loose the bloodhoundso they could follow the trail;But trying to overtake Cortezwas like following a star….From Belmont he went to the ranch,where they succeeded in surrounding him,Quite a few more that three hundred,but he jumped out of their corral.When he jumped out of their corral,according to what is said here,

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• Gregorio Cortez,with his pistol in his hand,"Don't run, you cowardly rinches,from a single Mexican"….Now he has met a Mexican;he says to him haughtily,"Tell me the news;I am Gregorio Cortez.They say that because ofme many people have been killed;so now I will surrender,because such things are not right."…All the rinches [Texas Rangers] were coming,so fast that they almost flew,Because they were going to get the tenthousand dollars that were offered.When they surrounded the house,Cortez appeared before them:"You will take me if I'mwilling but not any other way."Then said the Major Sheriff,as if he was going to cry,"Cortez, hand over your weapons;we do not want to kill you."Then said Gregorio Cortez,shouting to them in a loud voice,"I won't surrender my weaponsuntil I am in a cell"….

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The Great Migration1900-1930

• Immigration Act of 1924

• Contratistas (Labor Contractors)

• Ellis Island

• The Depression 1930-1940

• East Los Angeles• “The Mexican

Problem”• Repatriation• I.W.W. (International

Workers of the World)• “Bisbee Deportations”

• Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Fields

• Union de Trabajadores de la Valle Imperial

• Pachucos• Calo• Luis Valdes, Zoot Suit• Sleepy Lagoon 1942• Zoot Suit Riots 1943

• Zoot Suit:

• Bracero Program• “Operation Wetback”

1954• L.U.L.A.C. (League of

United Latin-American Citizens) 1921

• Mendez vs. Westminster School District of Orange County 1947

• The G.I. Forum 1948• Dr. Hector P. Garcia

The Chicano Movement 1975-• Chicano• Ruben Salazar

• United Farm Workers (UFW)

• Cesar Chavez

• Delano Strike 1965• Reies Lopez Tijerina• Alianza Federal de

Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants)

• Rodolfo (“Corky”) Gonzales

• La Crusada Para la Justicia

• La Raza Unida Party• Yo Soy Joaquin

• “Blowouts” • MECHA (Movimiento Estudiantil de Aztlan)

• Brown Berets

• Chicano Moratorium Committee