Hispanic+Heritage+Notes+CC15

=Thesis Statement:= We need to keep the Hispanic heritage alive in the US because it composes the very roots of America. =Notes:= http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/map.htm - California
 * Father Juanipero Serra, a catholic priest, and Captain Gaspa de Portola, a Spanish soldier, established of 21 missionaries along the California coast only about a day's walk apart in 1769
 * in 1825 the newly independent nation of Mexico claims California as is own territory
 * Throughout the 1830's and 1840's american settlers move to California despite the fact that it is Mexico territory
 * In 1848 the US Mexican war ends with the Mexico signing a treaty that gives the US California along with other previously owned Mexico territories, and all Mexican citizens in these territories are granted US citizenship.
 * The gold rush in 1849 brings thousands of new settlers into the newly US claimed California from all over the world, and the new settlers not only bring with them an economy for California, but also diseases that decrease the Native American population from 160,000 to 16,000 by the early 1900's
 * 1850 California officially becomes a US state
 * Due to the Mexican Revolution in Mexico, and constant war, many Mexicans move to California in hope of better opportunities in 1910
 * by 1990 the US census shows that Mexicans make up over 25% of the California population and probably more due to the undocumented immigrants, and projections show that from 1990 to 2010 the population of Mexicans in California are thought to double.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/map.htm - Florida
 * Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in 1513 when he landed on the coasts of Florida and claimed its land for Spain.
 * He named it "Pasqua Florida" which means feast of the flowers, because he was amazed by the beauty of the land
 * Spanish soldiers established the first permanent Spanish settlement in St. Augustine Florida, and it is today the oldest city in the Unite States in 1565
 * The city became the key to the Spainish's hold on the Florida coasts while fighting the French and British for control of the "New World also taking place around the late 1560's

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2014/11/18/unauthorized-immigrant-totals-rise-in-7-states-fall-in-14/
 * the immagratn population in Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, Pensilvania, and Virginia has increased from 10-25 thousand from 2009 to 2012
 * In six of the seven states where populations of unauthorized immigrants grew from 2009 to 2012, it was because the number of non-Mexicans increased; the number of Mexicans declined or did not change.
 * The exception was Nebraska, which had a small but statistically significant increase in Mexican unauthorized immigrants in those years.
 * More than half the 2012 unauthorized immigrant population (60%) lived in the six states with the largest numbers of such immigrants- California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Texas.

https://prezi.com/slugrda3hkxb/mexican-americans-in-the-industrial-revolution/
 * Many Mexican-Americans worked on the railroads during the industrial revolution, and made communication and transportation easier than ever through the ever growing railroad.
 * Mexican-Americans also played a large role in the Gold Rush, and because they were the more experienced minors they were given majority of the jobs available, and in turn this was a large part of the Industrial Revolution.
 * Even though bad working conditions, inequality, poor treatment, and discrimination all was part of the Mexican-Americans' lives they pushed through these challenges and in turn changed America forever.
 * Mexican-Americans also had an effect on our government, people such as Octavianio Larrazolo, who was a governor of New Mexico and served in the Senate, voiced Mexican-American opinions and helped them get out their bad situations.
 * Although Mexican Americans played a large role in the the first two Industrial revolutions, their work was noted specifically in the third Industrial Revolution, and since they were trusted with more important jobs, they did well an were looked at as equals and were given better working conditions and more freedoms in work.