ethnic studies unit 2

settled a standing border dispute between the United States and Spain in 1819, gave Florida to the U.S.

series of laws and diplomatic agreements between Mexico and the United States that permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the U.S. on short-term labor contracts

began in 1848, the news of gold brought about 300,000 people to California

American labor leader and civil rights activist, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association

Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages acorss the Atlantic Ocean from Spain

a socio-racial classification to explain mixed race families to those in Spain

Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century

established workers right to organize and secured better pay and working conditions on many farms

Immigration and Nationality Act, that allowed immigrants other than Western and Northern Europeans

a landmark case regarding Hispanic civil rights, overturned the murder conviction of a Mexican American farmworker, Pete Hernandez, because Mexican Americans were not allowed on jury

an ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula, 6th century B.C.

the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States

the belief that American settlers were destined to expand across North America

case that introduced evidence in a court that school segregation harmed children who were minorities

a person of mixed European and indigenous non-European ancestry in hte Spanish empire

a person of mixed African and European ancestry

an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army, 1846-1848. followed by 1845 American annexation of Texas

U.S. foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere

the mass deportation of Mexican Undocumented Workers in 1954

a counterculture that emerged in El Paso, Texas (late 1930s), associated with zoot suit fashion and self-empowerment in rejecting assimilation into Anglo-American society

a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims (722 AD-1492)

in 1904, states that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere paid their obligations to international creditors. also forbids European colonization in the Western Hemisphere

in 1898, ended Spain's colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the U.S. as a Pacific power

signed in 1848, ended the war between the U.S. and Mexico, ceded a third of Mexican territory to the U.S. (including California)

a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization in 1968. fights for neighborhood empowerment and self-determination for Puerto Rico, Latinos, and colonized people

series of riots that took place June 3-8 1943 in Los Angeles. started because on June 3 white U.S. servicemen and police beat, harassed, and detained hundreds of Mexican-American youth in a majority Mexican-American neighborhood in East Los Angeles