Latinos Group 3

By rin6405

  • Jose Francisco Canales came to the New World from Spain

  • Canales owned a one of six stores in Monterrey (modern day Mexico)

  • Las Canales was born

  • Jose de Escandon was authorized to sxplore and and colonize the region above Tampico

  • Escandon set out to explore and colonize somewhere else with criollo, mestizo, and Indian families from central Mexico

  • Escandon returned to start more settlements, the last of which was the town of Laredo.

  • The US Federal Government starded keeping records of immigration

  • Mexicans are the second largest immigrant Nationality

  • Immigrants from the U.S., Ireland, and Germany began settling in the north, which made the Mexicans feel threatened

  • Mifflin Kennedy, a Florida riverboat captain arrived to the area

  • General Zachary Taylor's army crossed into the disputed territory, which provoked a Mexican army attack

  • General Jose Antonio Rosillo Canales and his band inflicted more than 150 casualties on Americans

  • According to U.S Census, tejanos compromised 32.4% of the workers in Texas and owne 33% of its wealth.

  • Violence Against Mexicans

    Corpus Christi correspondent wrote for the Galveston Weekly News - "The whole race of Mexicans here is becoming a useless commodity, becoming cheap, dog cheap"

  • Scottish immigrant John Young died

  • Young's widow married his clerk John McAllen

  • Tejanos were 47.6% of the workforce but ossessed only 10.6% of the wealth.

  • Jose Antonio Canales Salinas secured a royal land grant in modern day Texas.

  • McAllen and Young ranches measured 160,000 acres

  • McAllen has his own town

  • Period: to

    Lynching of Mexicans

    Occured in early 1900's to as late as 1917

  • Rio Grande valley segretated

    90% Mexians but the white minority controlled most of the land and political power

  • First organized attemt to break down segregation

    7 Mexican organizations met to find the LULAC

  • More than 500,000 Mexicans were deported

  • WWII began where more than 375,000 Mexican Americans saw active duty

  • US and Mexico reach agreement to import Mexican workers

    10,000 mexicans a year were being contracted to work in the US

  • Manuel Garza wins town commissioner of Kingsville, Texas

    Was a major political win, signified the Mexican populations' attempts to achieve equality and fight the segregationist policies.

  • Creation of Mexican American Youth Organization

    Influential group founded in San Antonio, TX, created by Willie Velazquez and Jose Angel Guiterrez. This political party challenged the white control of Southwestern U.S.

  • Raza Unida Party wins elections

    Militant group challenged whtie ranchers and other "gringos", as well as some older Mexicano families that the group thought was being too lax. It resulted in violence.