Mexican Americans Negative Effects

Hispanics have been immigrating to America since the beginning of the Spanish Colonial era. Up until the 1920’s Mexican Americans have boomed in rural places in america. The 1920’s was meeting the beginning of a renaissance, a better promised life for both native americans as well as immigrants. Businesses were booming, wages were higher, and the industry was creating a bright future for America. However, Mexican Americans continued to face hardships as well as few successes leading up to the 1920’s. Whether these were Native born Americans with a Hispanic background or newly immigrated Mexicans, Mexican Americans faced the hardship of poverty, discrimination, segregation, and struggles during the 1920’s.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1948 would have lasting negative effects on Mexican Americans. The Treaty was signed after America had won the Mexican American war. America gained possession of the southwest states that had been part of Mexico for the price of around eighteen million dollars. In Article IX of the Treaty, it states that the Mexicans "shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without restriction"(Vargas 139). And as Rachel Rivera points out Article VII promised the Mexicans the right to keep their land which previously belonged to Mexico. However, the Treaty would not grant the

Specific Purpose: To inform the audience of the struggle for identification faced by Mexican-Americans as well as provide a brief historical analysis of these struggles.

U.S. War with Mexico had many effects on both countries. Even though American’s gained a considerable amount of land, it leads to a great deal of sectional tension. The two governments agreed to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which confirmed the annexation of Texas and ceded California and present day México, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah to the United States (Foner,474). With this huge land acquisition, the issue of slavery in the new territories was raised. The new land caused a great deal of conflict, and created great political sectionalism in America. Gaining this much land at a time seemed like a good idea until Americans had to deal with the political issues that went along with it. Residents from both the North and the South wanted

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed by the United States and Mexico to end the Mexican War, was a factor in the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. In the Treaty of Hidalgo, under Article VIII and Article IX, it states that pre-existing property rights were ensured by the United States for Mexicans that remained in the United States after the Mexican War (United States and Mexico). “During the 1960’s, a group of Mexican-Americans attempted to reclaim federal land in the United States” (Ramirez). Unfortunately, the United States decided not to honor a part of the agreement of the Hidalgo treaty, resulting in loss of lands for many Mexican-Americans. During the Chicano Movement, many Mexican-Americans claimed that they owned parts of lands in the United States (Ramirez). The Chicano Movement activists attempted to convince the federal government to honor the Treaty of Hidalgo ("Chicano! A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement").

Mexicans have been a people long oppressed. That is evident not only by the readings edited by Zaragosa Vargas in Major Problems in Mexican American History, but also by the the documentary Chicano!. The Mexicans’ past is underscored by conquest of the present-day American Southwest first by the Spanish and then by the United States following the Mexican American War. With other countries establishing control over them, Mexicans have never really been able to establish themselves. Efforts were repeatedly made to shape them into what others perceived them to be. The language they should speak, the religion they should practice, the things they should learn, and the way they should live, were all

It is a well-known-fact that according to the TSHA, Hernandez v Texas was the first and the only Mexican-American civil right case heard and decided by the United States’ during the post-World War II in 1950. Hernandez was originally from Mexico. His process was also a mean for Mexican-American to show the World how unfair the United States was when it came to civil rights.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which came into effect on 2 February 1848, ended the Mexican-American war and formally resolved territorial disputes resulting from that conflict. The treaty required the U.S. government to pay the Mexican government $15 million dollars, this in return for an expanse of territory that later became the states of Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado. I intend to argue that the treaty benefitted the people who inhabited, and later came to inhabit, that territory. I also propose that, as a result of the transfer of territory from a dictatorial regime to one that was based on democratic principles, both Mexico and the United States ultimately benefitted in several ways.

During the Mexican-American war the Mexicans lost half of their land. They then formed the Treaty of Guadalupe in 1848 which promised these "new" Americans free enjoyment of their liberty and property of any kind. Although at the time the treaty appeared to be a fair and favorable settlement t did not hold true to the promises written. Over the years after the treaty many lost their lands, some even by force. Even the Mexicans who were of upper class and wealthy lost their land. The Mexicans were looked down upon and were definitely not held with the same respect as the typical white male. They did not have the same opportunities that white men had. They were forced into low paying labor market jobs. They did no receive the same education that the white people had. Therefore it was not possible to compete with the white population.

After the Mexican-American War occurred in 1846 because of the annexation of Texas, the Texas Revolution, and the Thornton-Affair, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was ratified in 1848. The treaty was unfair to Mexico because although it made America richer and it gave rights to the Mexican immigrants, it left bitter feelings, and it robbed benefits from Mexico.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1948, ended the Mexican-American War. The treaty doubled the size of the United States and halved the size of Mexico, as it stated that Mexico give the United States Texas and accept the Rio Grande as Texas’s boundary, as well as sell New Mexico and Upper California to the United States for fifteen million dollars. Conditions of the treaty included that any Mexicans currently living in the territories that were now owned by the United States could become U.S. citizens and gave the U.S. power to deal with any “problematic” Native Americans on the U.S. side of the border. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo sparked many lasting controversies and political/social issues still present today. Some of the effects of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo are the end of slavery in the United States and the negative stereotypes of Mexicans held by Americans.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo started on February 2, 1848. This treaty finished the war between Americans and the Mexican. In this treaty, several countries added to America, and America increased its territory tremendously. However, this treaty did not work well for the Mexican, and it created a negative influence on the Mexican. On the other side, the Americans declared that the Mexican should be happy to sign on the treaty; because the Mexicans would get the same rights since they citizens of the country now. Like it said in the declaration of independence: “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the treaty that end the U.S-Mexico War in 1836. The war began due to the annexation of Texas by the United States which angered Mexico because they believed Texas belong to them. The Treaty gave the United States Texas for free and they paid for $15 million dollars for the rest of the South West territory. The treaty promised Mexicans living in the newly add territory full U.S citizenship, permission to keep their land, and practice their culture. Due to this treaty, the Mexican American identity was born. Legally the treaty stated Mexican American were consider white. However, in practice Mexican American were treated inferior and promises made by the treaty were broken by the United States. Since those promises were broken Mexican American followed a path where they were oppressed.

However, the provisions were never passed and their rights were eroded. The rights that were promised by this treaty were never kept. According to Zarate, “most of the century of the rule passed with little concern from Anglo society about the education of the Mexican American. Mexican American were immigrants, instead of residents, which their ancestors have been, living for 200 years. They were foreigners, and enemies who had to be controlled and kept in their place.” Americans did not take the consideration that the land was from Mexico before them. The land before them had different people, language, and culture. Having the American people officially controlling the Northwestern land, made them view the land as American. Thus, the Mexican people were put to the side because they were

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