Contemporary Latino Cultures

  • Period: 1517 to 1519

    Fall of Aztec Empire

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    Filibustering

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    Latin American Independence Movements

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    Annexation of the Spanish-Southeast by 1820 and Southwest by 1855

  • Texas declared independence / Anglo Annexation of texas

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    Mexican American War

    Led to Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Spanish American War

  • American Imperialism Began

  • Period: to

    Cuban Uprising - 10 Years War

  • American Depression (one of the many)

    Motivated American intervention in Cuba so men could be soldiers and regain their 'masculinity'
  • Wilson Tariff Act

  • Uprising in Cuba

  • Teller Amendment

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Foraker Act

  • Insular cases

  • Platt Amendment

  • Gold rush

    Led to Westward migration
  • Period: to

    Texas Rangers

  • Plan de San Diego

  • Jones Act

  • Second Jones Act

  • LULAC established

  • Period: to

    First wave of repatriation

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

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    Third wave of repatriation

    Early 1930s
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    Puerto Rican Independence Movement

    Movement grows 1930s-1940s
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    Operation Bootstrap

  • Second wave of repatriation

    post 1931
  • Alien Labor Act

  • Ponce Massacre

  • Period: to

    MAM

    Probably wrong
  • Period: to

    Bracero Program

    1948-1962 2,000 Braceros came
  • Zoot suit riots

  • First Puerto Rican born governor

  • Puerto Rico becomes Commonwealth

  • Mendez v. Westminster

  • Us grants Puerto Rico right to elect governor

  • Luis Muñoz Marín first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico

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    Chicano Movement

  • Period: to

    Latinos fight for Latino to be used on the census

    1960s
  • The term Hispanic first used in the census

  • War of 1998

  • Hurricane Maria