On the other hand, before the Mexican-American War, citizens of Mexico were previously living on land that is now part of the United States. ... Mexico relinquished California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming to the United States after being defeated in the Mexican-American War. This war led to the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. Mexicans living in these states were given the option to stay and become American citizens or return to Mexico. ... There was still racism and discrimination against Mexican Americans. ...

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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...

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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...

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Some examples of this are the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, the use of minorities for hard labor at low wages, and especially the lynching of black Americans in the south. ... Today and in Southern California, Mexicans suffer from discrimination, similar to what others have faced before. ...

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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. ...

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Mexicans too celebrate a type of Halloween, but theirs mainly focuses on the remembrance of their dead ancestors, which is called the Day of the Dead. ... We were the ones who had a civil war due to the issue of slavery. ...

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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. ...

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Kurt is from a small town called Mexico in New York and came to UB to experience a top class education and also to pursue his swimming. ... During the time of the World War 2, US military and intelligence officials intruded into his house and dismantled his radio verifying that it was not a two way system and he was not playing the role of a spy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School