For Wednesday, please read Chapter Twelve and be prepared to answer the following questions:
- Why is 1909 a significant date for Mexican immigration?
- How did the U.S. deal with Mexican immigrants during the Great Depression?
- How many Mexicans were in New Mexico and California when the U.S. annexed the territory?
- Why was statehood delayed?
- Why is all but impossible to get accurate estimates of the number of immigrants from Mexico (long list).
- Why is the relative standard of living in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico important?
- During World War I, who filled the jobs that otherwise might have been filled by European immigrants in places like Chicago, Detroit, and Pittsburgh?
- What was the bracero program, and why was it created?
- What percentage of illegal immigrants are Mexicans today? What messes up the numbers?
- What accounts for the low rate of naturalization for Mexican Americans? For language persistence?
- How did the United Farm Workers movement combine religion and politics?
- What is the status of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans?
- Why do most Puerto Ricans not want independence?
- Where do most Puerto Ricans live?
- What two related problems to Puerto Ricans face in the United States?
- How are Puerto Ricans more like earlier European immigrants than like Mexican immigrants?
- What common phenomenon do both groups suffer from?
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