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- 4. By 1848, ______ lived in the territories given up by Mexico to the United States.
- 6. (2 words, no spaces) Using crops introduced by Mexicanos and the Mexican system of irrigation, American settlers turned the desert Southwest into America's “________.”
- 8. Mexicanos discovered copper in the 1800s. Due to this discovery, copper can carry _____ and phone calls to millions by 1940.
- 12. Instead of ____ products, the main products of ranchos were meat, hides, and tallow (fat).
- 13. Mexicanos made several ____ to American life.
- 15. gold pan introduced by Mexicans, which miners used to scoop up mud from streambeds
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- 1. One of the cowboy's most important jobs was this- which included rounding-up the cattle and branding them to avoid conflict with nearby rancheros.
- 2. Mexican Americans had a deep ____ on their new country; the presence of their culture is highly detectable.
- 3. Mexican food was a unique and distinctive blend of American Indian foods alongside old-world food from ________, where Spain is.
- 5. (2 words, no spaces) The most important industry in New Mexico was _____ because these animals fed, clothed, and supported Spanish and Mexican settlers.
- 7. With cattle so abundant, Americans followed Californios and Tejanos by learning the cattle business from Mexican ____.
- 9. Mexicanos came to the Southwest with a rich tradition in ____. They brought knowledge of where to look for precious metals and how to get them out of the ground
- 10. American cowboys learned their job from the Mexican ___.
- 11. (2 words, no space) The Southwest was very influenced by Mexican laws, especially since its landscape was much different from the East. One law about water said that water was too valuable to be owned or controlled by any one person, and instead, it belonged to an entire community to be used for the benefit of all.
- 14. Americans pushed Mexican Americans off of their land and did not let students speak _____ in schools.