Chicano/a Studies Crossword Review

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  1. 3. White Americans began a revolution in this Mexican-owned territory in 1835. Although White Americans claimed they were oppressed by the Mexican government, the truth is that they wanted to expand slavery into this territory.
  2. 5. A two word type of class that focuses on the histories, experiences, and cultures of racial and ethnic groups in the United States. It is the type of class that we are in right now!
  3. 6. Over 60% of people of Mexican descent who were removed from the United States during the Great Depression were American __________.
  4. 11. Nearly 2 million people of Mexican descent were forcibly removed from the United States during the Great Depression, in what has become known as Mexican __________.
  5. 12. Political cartoons in the late 1800s and early 1900s portrayed people of Mexican descent as lazy, stupid, and criminals. All of these were examples of this, an assumption that is made about an entire group of people.
  6. 16. Two word name of the law enforcement group that was responsible for much of the violence against people of Mexican descent in the early 1900s. Many of the people of Mexican descent who were murdered by this group were innocent.
  7. 17. The United States experienced a big increase in this in the early 1900s. Unfortunately, many White Americans were not big fans of this and worked to try and stop it.
  8. 18. The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo granted Mexican people now living in the United States the opportunity to gain American __________, which would grant them rights and privileges (in theory).
  9. 19. The name of the indigenous Mexican group who are traditionally known for their practice of human sacrifice, but in this class we looked at the ingenuity and advancements of the group!
  10. 20. Three word name for the resistance group that fought back against White Americans stealing land away from Mexican-Americans in the late 1800s.
  11. 22. Two word name for the style of clothing that was popular among Mexican American youth during World War II. Mexican American youth wearing these clothes were stereotyped as criminals and eventually the victims of racial violence in the Zoot Suit Riots.
  12. 23. As a result of being negatively stereotyped and dehumanized in the early 1900s, Mexican immigrants were forced to take baths in this when entering the United States.
  13. 24. The name of the town in Texas that was home to a deadly massacre in 1918. 15 innocent people of Mexican descent were murdered by White law enforcement agents.
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  1. 1. Two word name for the 17 year old girl who led a riot at the U.S. - Mexico border in 1917 over the cruel treatment Mexican immigrants faced.
  2. 2. Two word name for the period of violence that people of Mexican descent underwent throughout the American Southwest in the early 1900s.
  3. 4. One of the ways the United States tried to justify treating Mexican immigrants so cruelly at the border in the early 1900s was by spreading the belief that people of Mexican descent carried this with them into the United States.
  4. 7. A two word belief spread among White Americans in the mid-1800s that they were a racially superior people who had been chosen by God to conquer all parts of North America.
  5. 8. Las Gorras Blancas and the 1917 Bath Riots are two early examples of Mexican ___________ to oppression.
  6. 9. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, people of Mexican descent were blamed for the bad economy by being accused of taking these away from "real" Americans.
  7. 10. This is a term used to describe people of Mexican descent who were born in or live in the United States. It is unique because it focuses on empowerment and pride.
  8. 13. Two word name of the city in Texas that was home to a mass shooting against people of Mexican descent in 2019. The mass shooting shared similarities with the period of violence against people of Mexican descent in the early 1900s.
  9. 14. This is another term used to describe people of Mexican descent in the United States, but many Mexican-Americans do not like it because it also includes people from this country, who brutally colonized Mexico in the 1500s.
  10. 15. Despite being legally viewed as "White" under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Mexican-Americans quickly learned that they were socially viewed and treated as __________ by White Americans.
  11. 21. The term for the act of unlawfully settling on a piece of land that is not yours. White Americans began doing this to land owned by Mexican-Americans shortly following the end of the Mexican-American War.