How Did The United States Impact The Invasion Of Mexico
The signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2nd, 1848, signified the official end of a two year war between United States and Mexico through the United States’ terms of concealed exploitation on the susceptible Mexican people. America’s invasion of Mexico combined with their exploitative terms on Mexico significantly impacted every life aspect of the Mexican individual from their land, their rights as citizens and their downgraded ownership over their land.
Under the first condition of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Mexican people lost half their land to American invaders. Takaki states “In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico accepted the Rio Grande as the Texas border and ceded the Southwest territories to the United …show more content…
.“During the 1890s, many counties established “white primaries” to disfranchise Mexicans as well as blacks, and the legislature instituted additional measures like the poll tax to reduce Mexican political participation” as said by Takaki (Foreigners In Their Native Land 179). The poll tax was placed into effect by the Americans as a way to restrict the Mexicans of their right to vote, knowing that they would prioritize paying off their debts. Additionally, this resulted in the loss of political representation for the Mexican voters. Simultaneously, they were also deducted another tax which targeted those with specific skin color and the ancestry lineage. Takaki refers to this tax as the “Mexican Miners Tax … A foreign miners’ tax of $20 dollars monthly” in which “The tax collectors took fees mainly from spanish-speaking miners, including American citizens of Mexican Ancestry” (Foreigners In Their Native Land 178). These discriminatory acts were based off of an anti-vagrancy act, described as the “Greaser Act,” “All persons who [were] commonly known as “Greasers” or the issue of Spanish or Indian blood… and who [went] armed and [were] not peaceable and quiet persons” explained Takaki (Foreigners In Their Native Land 178). The Anglo lawmakers knowingly enacted this law against the Mexicans as a way to mark them as a problem to American
Under the first condition of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Mexican people lost half their land to American invaders. Takaki states “In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico accepted the Rio Grande as the Texas border and ceded the Southwest territories to the United …show more content…
.“During the 1890s, many counties established “white primaries” to disfranchise Mexicans as well as blacks, and the legislature instituted additional measures like the poll tax to reduce Mexican political participation” as said by Takaki (Foreigners In Their Native Land 179). The poll tax was placed into effect by the Americans as a way to restrict the Mexicans of their right to vote, knowing that they would prioritize paying off their debts. Additionally, this resulted in the loss of political representation for the Mexican voters. Simultaneously, they were also deducted another tax which targeted those with specific skin color and the ancestry lineage. Takaki refers to this tax as the “Mexican Miners Tax … A foreign miners’ tax of $20 dollars monthly” in which “The tax collectors took fees mainly from spanish-speaking miners, including American citizens of Mexican Ancestry” (Foreigners In Their Native Land 178). These discriminatory acts were based off of an anti-vagrancy act, described as the “Greaser Act,” “All persons who [were] commonly known as “Greasers” or the issue of Spanish or Indian blood… and who [went] armed and [were] not peaceable and quiet persons” explained Takaki (Foreigners In Their Native Land 178). The Anglo lawmakers knowingly enacted this law against the Mexicans as a way to mark them as a problem to American