Atlas of Hispanic-American History

Mexico also revolted, but they were crushed at Taos early in 1847. Invading Mexico While the struggle for California went on, Ge ...

hampered by high rates of disease and desertion, which had also plagued Taylor’s army. However, he was aided by the effec- tive ...

into exile once again. The citizens of Mexico City gave some resistance in the form of riots and sniping, but Scott sup- pressed ...

Mexico showed “we take nothing by con- quest.... Thank God.” But since Mexico had refused to sell its Far North at any price bef ...

The Californios, once the masters of their country, were now a small minority. At first some of them benefited from the Californ ...

routinely ignored), miners made their own laws, called mining camp codes. The camp codes defined how big a claim could be and sp ...

fact, the legislature ratified the mining camp codes and added a foreign miners’ license tax, which imposed a fee of $20 a month ...

MANIFEST DESTINY AND HISPANIC AMERICA 101 In 1781, a group of 44 Spanish, Filipino, Native American and African settlers founded ...

102 ATLAS OF HISPANIC-AMERICAN HISTORY Date Case/Law Description (^1829) Foster v. Neilson While Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S ...

In the formerly disputed portion of Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, most Mexican and Spanish land claims were ...

“ignorance, indolence and cowardice,” as one Texan rancher put it. An Anglo visi- tor to California in the early 1840s called Ca ...

With prejudice came a lower value on Mexican-American life. Many Anglos thought it no crime to kill a Mexican, as suggested by a ...

Vásquez, born in Monterey in 1835, were also tied to the anger of Mexican Americans at Anglo abuses. He claimed to have develope ...

T he outcome of the U.S.-Mexican War brought the United States its first large population of Hispanic Americans. But there had a ...

fought at Gettysburg (1863) and Peters- burg (1864–1865). Some Hispanic Americans fought on the Confederate side. Hispanic Ameri ...

California. Wealthy rancheros in New Mexico had cause to be sympathize with Confederate plantation owners since they shared simi ...

Territory, leaving New Mexico with its present-day borders. The two southwest- ern territories would join the union as states a ...

was on the continuing presence of French troops, Maximilian’s empire was short- lived. As soon as the Civil War was over, the Un ...

and Italy each numbered in the millions. It was not until the 20th century that the number of Hispanic immigrants climbed into t ...

severe economic depression in the mid- 1880s compounded Cuban woes. Jobs were scarce, and abolition of slavery meant that 200,00 ...