Contemporary Latino Cultures 2

  • Feb 15, 1519

    Fall of Aztec Civilization

    1517-1519
  • Spain and England Colonize the Americas

    1500-1800
  • Period: to

    Latin American Independence Movement

  • Mexico Abolishes Slavery and American Immigration

  • Anglo's Declare Establishment in Texas against Mexico

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Spanish American War

    American Imperialism Begins
  • Ten Years War v Spanish Authority in Cuba

  • Age of Imperialism

    US Manifest Destiny and Age of Imperialism
  • Depression of 1893

    Made US Men want to join in war
  • US Imposes Tariff on Cuba

  • Treaty of Paris

    Prevents Cuba from becoming territory
  • USS Main Explodes, US Declares War on Spain

  • Foraker Act

  • Platt Amendment

    US Intervention if Cuban Sovereignty threatened
  • Insular Cases

    Constitution does not follow the flag
  • Lynching at the Border

    1910-1920
  • Jones Act

    Statutory Citizenship given by Law, not birth, to PR.
  • Nativism v Population in US

  • Independence Movement P.R

  • Eugenics

  • First Wave of repatriation

    1929-1930
  • LULAC Established

  • Operation Bootstrap

    1930-1980's, Puerto Rican Repatriation
  • Second Wave

  • Alien Labor Act

  • Third Wave

    1930's
  • Great Depression

  • Platt Amendment Repealed

  • Ponce Massacre

  • Palm Sunday Massacre in PR

  • US-Mexican War

  • MAM Established

    1940s- 70s
  • Bracero Program

  • Zoot Suits

  • Mendez v Westminster

  • First Elected Governer of Puerto Rico

  • Puerto Rico becomes Commonwealth

  • Bracero Influx

    1948-64
  • Mass Influx of PR's in US Mainland

    1950's-1965's
  • Castro Dictatorship in Cuba Begins

  • Latino Term Used

  • DACA Established

  • Joe Arpaio Pardoned

  • DACA Repeal