Those who rejected to move later went to war with American governments, and as a result, many were killed. As for the Mexican Americans, they also fell victims to the 19th century U.S. expansionism. ... The desire of white Americans to expand the U.S. territories resulted directly into the Mexican-American War, which ended with Mexico's surrender and led to the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 and the Gadseden Purchase in 1853. ... According to some legal scholars, Anglos rarely distinguished between Mexicans and Mexican Americans and tended to paint an image of Mexican...

• Word Count: 1187
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Before the World War II, many Jews, blacks were excluded from society, but after the WWII they came to the attention of the Americans, especially blacks that joined professional sports. ... Each ethnic group had its own era when it came to America; so that the Irish came in 1850, Jews half century later, and Mexican-American half century after the Jews. The geographic distribution was quietly diverse; so that Scandinavians settled in upper Midwest, Cuban refugees in Florida, Mexican-Americans in Southwest, blacks in the South and so on. ... A reason why immigrants choose the place to settle is...

• Word Count: 572
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the age of seventeen, Hughes traveled to Mexico to visit his father. He saw that the Mexican people took great pride in their identity through their art. ... The civil war had taken place roughly 40 years before and there were still a vast number of white people who looked upon black people as slaves. ...

• Word Count: 1190
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Thus at the end of his experiment in truth, the author is forced to leave America and move to Mexico with his family, for peace and security. But before leaving he hopes that white racism will not cause black racism, for then there will be a war that will destroy even the good and the innocent. ...

• Word Count: 670
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Hughes" father, being frustrated with job opportunities, moved to Mexico when his son was not even two years-old. ... During the 1930s, while World War II was in progress, Hughes" main concern was writing about world issues in his commitment to racial justice (Bloom 125). He encouraged the Black Americans to support the war efforts and encouraged the government to give to its own citizens what they were advocating abroad (Harper 3). ...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School