One consequence of the mexican-american war is the dispute of slavery in the U.S. “Soon after texas won independence from Mexico in 1836‚ the state legalized slavery. Free blacks and mulattoes were forbidden from entering Texas‚ which had once been a safe haven for runaways.” During the 1830s there had been a westward push of white settlements and slavery that brought significant numbers of new settlers to the region leading to conflicts between whites and Mexicans that occupied land had increased
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Once wars are done treaties are signed. The Mexican American war is a war where the U.S provoke Mexico into war mainly for territorial growth which occurred when the U.S won the war. Many other things went into provoking Mexico to go to war. The U.S believed that Texas belonged to them so they tried taking over in wat‚ but were unable to. The Mexican government opened Texas to Euro Americans as long they obeyed the laws. As the number of Euro American grew in the Texas‚ they felt resentful when
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“Discrimination continued during World War II despite the patriotism of all groups of Americans” Despite the war-time of American patriotism an alarming increase of racial stereotype continued. Xenophobia prompted discrimination against Japanese‚ Mexicans‚ and African-American during World War II. Regardless of American standards of equality‚ many classes of Americans‚ such as African-‚ Japanese-‚ and Mexican-Americans experienced severe discrimination due to conservative views on race and growing xenophobia
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in the Mexican-American war The Mexican-American war stared in 1821 after Mexico won its independence from Spain‚ thus allowing American settlers to move into the newly unoccupied territory. The Victorians of the war‚ were the Americans. After the war came to an end‚ Mexico signed the treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo. In the treaty Mexico agreed to give 500‚000mi to the U.S.‚ while the united states paid Mexico $15 million. There are many different point of views towards the Mexican-American war. The
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“World War II and Mexican-Americans (1945)” describes the founding of an organization that confronts against the anti-Latina discrimination and fights for equal rights for Latinos. The League of United Latin American Citizens or known as LULAC specifies why there’s mistreatment of “Mexicans” when they are people that risked their lives to help during WWII. They define that in the United States there’s an ideal that the “American Culture” is remarkable and that others like the Mexican Culture are inferior
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Mexican-American War It all started when Texas gained independence from Mexico in 1836. They fought the Mexican War of Independence against Santa Anna because he was a dictator. They felt that the time had come to break free of Mexican laws. They captured Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto and forced him to sign a treaty granting Texas independence. For 9 years Texas requested to join the United States. Washington however‚ did not want to take action because he was afraid of angering Mexico
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The Mexican-American War was a war between the United States and Mexico which lasted from April 1846 to February 1848. It stemmed from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). The war was the most devastating event in Mexican history‚ where Mexico lost the modern day areas of California‚ Arizona‚ New Mexico‚ Nevada‚ Colorado and Montana. The Mexican-American spawned out of land lust
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United States: Justified or Unjustified Mexico wanted to steal America’s land that they have won. Mexico was crossing American borders‚ and some Mexican soldiers killed sixteen Americans. Mexico crossed the line with America and the United States decided to go to war with Mexico. America has too little land for too many people‚ and America had already won Texas. Mexico denied Texas’s independence and wants Texas back. America had decided to go to war because the belief to fulfill Manifest Destiny
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Who plays more important behind the multiculture country? Sandy Li 3B In 1971‚ from the Canada multiculturalism act‚ Canadian government had admitted that Canada was a multicultural country‚ and accepted it’s English and French double property. In 1867‚ when Canada was built‚ the proportion of English and French people occupied 91.6%. Although Canada has been colonized by French people first‚ English still give a huge influence on its cultures‚ and
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“This turned my life upside down.” Lester Rodriguez lived a life where what could go wrong did. As a young boy Rodriguez did not know the circumstances he was going to be in. He just followed directions without question. This all changed during the summer of his seventh grade year. He grew up with his mother and two younger sisters. His mother raised him to be polite and to have respect and value others‚ but that was not all she taught Rodriguez. She taught him to be greedy‚ vain and to resort to
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