Title: Mexican Americans
1Mexican Americans
Groups Settlements Wars Chicano Movement Mexican American Today Teaching Strategies
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2Groups- 10 Points
Only about 300,000 of this ethnic group from
Spain came to the Americas during three centuries
of settlement.
What are Spaniards?
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3Groups- 20 Points
The Mestizos were offspring of these two
ethnically mixed unions.
What are Spanish men and Indian women?
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4Groups- 30 Points
This group is anyone whose native language is
Spanish.
What is Hispanic?
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5Groups- 40 Points
A group of people that live in the United States,
speak Spanish, and are considered Hispanic.
What are Latinos?
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6Groups- 50 Points
This group was in the land that is now the United
States before all other American groups, except
the American Indians, Aleuts, Eskimos, and Native
Hawaiians.
Who are Mexican Americans?
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7Settlements- 10 Points
Spain had a smaller number of settlers than this
country in the Americas.
What is England?
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8Settlements - 20 Points
More English than Spanish colonists brought this
with them to the Americas.
What are wives?
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9Settlements 30 Points
A severe shortage of this item caused men to pay
54 kg of the best tobacco for it.
What is a woman?
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10Settlements 40 Points
Mestizos was a new race that formed when these
two ethnic groups reproduced.
What are Spanish and Indians?
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11Settlements 50 Points
Double Jeopardy Extra question
Mexican biological heritage is actually more of
this than Spanish.
What is Indian?
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12Wars- 10 Points
In 1836, this president led several thousand
Mexican troops into Texas. His army killed 187
Texans at the Alamo.
Who is Santa Anna?
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13Wars- 20 Points
In 1877, this war occurred, in which Mexicans
organized and rebelled against Anglos because of
a dispute over rights to salt beds.
What is the El Paso Salt War?
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14Wars- 30 Points
A revolution started in Mexico in 1910 causing
thousands of Mexicans to immigrate to the United
States looking for jobs and to escape political
turmoil and persecution.
What is the Mexican Revolution of 1910?
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15Wars- 40 Points
The U.S. declared war on Mexico in 1846 when a
boundary dispute developed between the two
nations.
What is the Mexican American War?
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16Wars 50 Points
When the U.S. defeated Mexico in 1846, Mexico
signed this treaty in which Mexico ceded 1/3 of
all its territory to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
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17Chicano Movement 10 Points
Prior to the civil rights movement of the 1960s,
this was a term used to refer to lower-class
Mexican immigrants from rural areas and small
towns.
What is Chicano?
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18 Chicano Movement 20 Points
Mexican American organizations, such as Las
Gorras Blancas, fought these leaders who were
illegally taking land owned by Mexican Americans
in New Mexico.
Who were Anglos?
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19 Chicano Movement 30 Points
In the first decades of the twentieth century,
most Mexican Americans worked in this.
What is Agriculture?
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20 Chicano Movement 40 Points
From 1900-1940 strikes and union activities
continued in the midst of oppressive tactics, but
they continued to be frustrated by this.
What is repression and discrimination?
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21 Chicano Movement 50 Points
Many Chicano civil rights leaders, including this
head of the United Farm Workers Organizing
Committee, successfully fought to return land to
Chicanos and improve education and housing for
Mexican Americans.
Who is Cesar Chavez
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22Mexican Americans Today- 10 Points
Although Mexican Americans made many gains during
the 1960s, these gains faded during the 1970s and
1980s. One of the major factors was the
conservative national policies during these years.
What is Reagan?
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23Mexican Americans Today- 20 Points
Various Hispanic groups such as Mexican
Americans, Puerto Ricans and this group formed
alliances to improve the economic and educational
status of U.S. Hispanics.
What is Cubans?
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24Mexican Americans Today- 30 Points
In 2001, there were 20 Hispanics in this branch
of Congress.
What is the House of Representatives?
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25Mexican Americans Today- 40 Points
Children of the new middle class Mexican American
often have little knowledge of this.
What is traditional Mexican American culture in
the United States.
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26Mexican Americans Today- 50 Points
Although large populations of Mexican Americans
are concentrated in such cities as Los Angeles,
Houston, Dallas, Denver, and Chicago, many
Mexican Americans now live and work in mainstream
White institutions and have little contact with
this.
What is the Hispanic Barrio?
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27 Teaching Strategies 10 Points
In the primary grades, it is appropriate to
introduce this concept of thinking about a group
of people that is often harmful to individuals
and groups.
What is stereotyping?
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28 Teaching Strategies 20 Points
To teach primary grades about stereotypes, have
them think about different groups such as these.
What are boys, girls, rich people, poor people,
and fat people?
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29 Teaching Strategies 30 Points
Have students in Intermediate and Upper Grades
come up with this to explain why so many Mexicans
immigrated to the U.S. during 1910 and 1930.
What is a hypothesis?
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30 Teaching Strategies 40 Points
Have students research the conditions of the
Early Mexican immigrants to this country.
What is the United States?
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31Teaching Strategies - 50 Points
Use this effective teaching tool to incorporate
visual and interactive learning.
What is Jeopardy?!
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