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The American Southwest: This Land Was Your Land, This Land Is My Land, This Land Belongs to You and Me

The American Southwest: This Land Was Your Land, This Land Is My Land, This Land Belongs to You and Me. Christina Thomaz. Cort és Conquered Central Mexico 1519-1521. Spain Established Colonial Government in Mexico 1535. Cities Founded by Mexico. 1610 Santa Fe was founded.

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The American Southwest: This Land Was Your Land, This Land Is My Land, This Land Belongs to You and Me

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  1. The American Southwest: This Land Was Your Land, This Land Is My Land, This Land Belongs to You and Me Christina Thomaz

  2. Cortés Conquered Central Mexico1519-1521

  3. Spain Established Colonial Government in Mexico1535

  4. Cities Founded by Mexico • 1610 Santa Fe was founded. • 1718 San Antonio was founded.

  5. Mexico Opened Texas to American Immigrants in 1823 Because Mexico only had about 2,500 settlers of its own occupying Texas, it decided to offer cheap land to draw in settlers that would build up its territory. These newcomers included English-speaking Americans and English-speaking immigrants to America.

  6. The US Government Marked the Santa Fe Trail 1824(At that time, the area still belonged to Mexico.) .

  7. The US Acquired Florida1819 The Adams-Onís Treaty established the US-Mexican border and gave the US Florida.

  8. Mexico Achieved Independence1821

  9. Texas Declared Independence1836 and California in 1846 Flag for the Republic of Texas California Bear Flag

  10. The US-Mexican War1846-1848 At the beginning to the war, Mexico controlled more than one-third of North America. By the Treaty ofGuadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded its Southwest territories and present-day California. *The Río Bravo was renamed Río Grande by the Americans.

  11. Gadsden Purchase1853 The US bought the southwestern tip of present-day New Mexico and southern Arizona.

  12. A New Status Quo The American settlers enlarged their holdings at the expensive of the Mexicans who were cheated out of their land since they did not know English. Although the Mexican population was still more numerous, by 1900 one-third of all the large estates belonged to Americans.

  13. Mexican Americans European immigrants married the daughters of traditional land holding Mexican families. Mexicans were considered “as foreigners in their native land.” 1858 memoir of Juan Seguín (a prominent Tejano or native Texan) *John Young, one of the prosperous immigrants, named Edinbury after his native city in Scotland.

  14. Mexican American Participation Jose Antonio Navarro (1795-1871) was a Texas legislator under Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and the U.S. *This statue of Navarro was erected in San Antonio to honor his contributions.

  15. Mexican Immigration As thousands lost their land, new Mexican immigrants arrived in the Southwest region. Between 1900 and 1930, the number reached more than a million. By 1929 the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) aimed at achieving equal rights and complete assimilation for Hispanics through the mastering of the English language. Mexican immigrants in rural Texas 1930s http://www.memory.loc.gov

  16. 1930s During the Great Depression, more than 500,000 Mexicans/Mexican Americans were forcibly deported due to an anti-immigration campaign. Some of these individuals were even American citizens.

  17. World War II & Post War Until 1965, more than 100,000 Mexicans a year came to the US under the Bracero Program. In addition to providing labor, Mexicans/Mexican Americans also served in the army.

  18. Legal Mexican Immigration 1961-1996 • 1961-1970 453,000 • 1971-1980 640,000 • 1981-1990 1,655,000 • 1991-1996 1,653,000

  19. Amexica, Mexifornia, or AztlanMexicans Seek Their Identity T-shirt proclaiming Mexican identity 2007

  20. Quote from Excélsior(One of Mexico’s leading Newspaper) “A peaceful mass of people, hardworking, carries out slowly and patiently an unstoppable invasion, the most important in human history. The result of this migration… is to return the land to the jurisdiction of Mexico without the firing of a single short.” Carlos Loret de Mola, columinst 1982

  21. “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality” (Written in 1883) “We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents…We tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States have been fashion’d from the British Islands only…which is a very great mistake.” Walt Whitman

  22. The Southwest of the US Maintains Its Mexican Heritage and Culture

  23. Bibliography Gomez, Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. USA: Penguin Books, 2001. Rivera, John-Michael. The Emergence of Mexicana America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture. New York:University Press, 2006. http://www.lib.utexas.edu http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/timeline_flash.html http://www.mnforsustain.org/aztlan_great_mexican_invasion.htm http://www.memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/interv/toc.php

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