Spanish Exploration - Answer-Spain was the first to seize the opportunities (for labor, land and goods) created by the New World. They continually funded more explorations. The conquistadores destroy native populations. Spanish explorers are the first to discover and colonize much of the Americas (...
CHST Midterm Exam Questions and
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Spanish Exploration - Answer-Spain was the first to seize the opportunities (for labor,
land and goods) created by the New World. They continually funded more explorations.
The conquistadores destroy native populations. Spanish explorers are the first to
discover and colonize much of the Americas (especially the southern end)
Colonization - Answer-The expansion of countries into other countries where they
establish settlements and control the people
Sacred Expedition - Answer-Spanish conquistadors and padres led by Capt. Gaspar
Portola and Father Junipero Serra had established nine coastal missions between
present day San Diego and San Francisco
Spanish California - Answer-Presidio at San Diego, the first permanent European
settlement on the Pacific Coast, was established in 1769.
Spain ordered the colonization of California in response to a perceived Russian threat.
JunÃpero Serra founded the first mission in San Diego in 1769.
California was a mission frontier.
California Missions - Answer-21 religious outposts established between 1769 and 1833
in California. Most by the Franciscans, and most along with a military presidio nearby
Mexico California Economy - Answer-the expansion of immigration communities and
networks that reduce the cost of migration to successive waves of migrants, and a
fertility rate exceeding that of native women and most other immigrant women. As a
result, California is characterized, more than any other state in the Union, by a large,
permanent, self-perpetuating Mexican labor presence.
Mexican American War - Answer-(1846-1848) The war between the United States and
Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory.
Bear Flag Revolt - Answer-A revolt of American settlers in California against Mexican
rule. It ignited the Mexican War and ultimately made California a state.
Republic of Texas - Answer-Independent nation that was created after Texans defeated
Mexico in the Texas Revolution
Great Depression - Answer-the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in
1929 and continuing through the 1930s
Spanish Fantasy Heritage - Answer-story of Ramona sugar coated, no conquest racism
sexism etc
, Spanish missions remodeled and restored to promote tourism
show happiness and progress
Legacies of Conquest - Answer-conquest-subjugation and assumption of control of a
place or people by use of military force
legacy- something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from
the past
racial violence, economic and political marginalization after Mexican American war
Mexican American history and the Mexican American experience in the present is
important because____________________________.
a. ...Mexican Americans are one of the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. and a
highly diverse population who are
the descendants native/indigenous Americans, Africans, and Europeans.
b. ...the U.S. is home to one of the largest Spanish speaking populations in the world
and Mexican Americans exercise an
increasingly large amount of political and social influence in the American Southwest.
c. ...it helps us break from the black/white binary to which we tend to learn in history,
diversify our understandings of
frontiers and the movement of different colonial powers in present-day U.S. history, and
explore colonial endeavors that
predate Jamestown and the British on the East Coast.
d. All of the Above - Answer-d. All of the Above
Arizona's House Bill 2281 in 2010 banned Mexican American Studies in the public
schools because, as the policy stated,
it promoted the overthrow of the U.S. government, that ethnic centered curriculum was
wrong because it was designed
for pupils of a particular ethnic group, and that it advocated ethnic solidarity and victim
based thinking instead of
individualism.
True or False - Answer-True
Which of the following statements most accurately describes contemporary and
historical problems with the identity labels "Hispanic" and "Latino?"
a. Both terms emphasize pre-European North America and are problematic in the way
in which they almost completely
leave out Europe
b. Both terms are problematic because they are too region-based in their definitions.
c. Both terms are problematic because of nearly exclusive use as identity labels in
present-day Mexico.
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