Mexican Americans
1848 to the Present
The American (Mexican War)
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John Tyler 1841-1844
John Calhoun
Henry Clay
Lewis Cass
James K. Polk 18441848
• 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
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“Cortina War”
Corridos
Gregorio Cortez
El Paso del Norte (El
Paso, Ciudad Juarez)
• Salt War (1877)
Corrido of Gregorio Cortez
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They went around asking
questions about half an hour afterward;
They found out that the wrongdoer
had been Gregorio Cortez. Now they have
outlawed Cortez
throughout 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 poppy
From the fear that they had
from Cortez and his pistol….They let loose
the bloodhound
so they could follow the trail;
But trying to overtake Cortez
was 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
of
me 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 ten
thousand dollars that were offered.When
they surrounded the house,
Cortez appeared before them:
"You will take me if I'm
willing 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 weapons
until I am in a cell"….
The Great Migration
1900-1930
• 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 LatinAmerican 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