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1819
La Adams Onis Treaty daba Florida de la America y set a boundary entre America y Nueva Spain (ahora Mexico). -
FD quote- I chose this quote to fit here, because it is around the time he escaped being a slave to go to New York. It is before the Mexican American war breaks out, which is why he isn’t talking about immigration rights.
“I have often been asked, how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. And my readers may share the same curiosity. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath, and the 'quick round of blood,' I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after..." -
1829
Mexico abolished slavery -
1836
Slavery began legal again -
FD Quote- I chose for this quote to fit here because it would make sense that he escaped for Ireland to be free as slavery began legal again.
“Eleven days and a half gone and I have crossed three thousand miles of the perilous deep. Instead of a democratic government, I am under a monarchical government. Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle [Ireland]. I breathe, and lo! the chattel [slave] becomes a man. I gaze around in vain for one who will question my equal humanity, claim me as his slave, or offer me an insult. I employ a cab—I am seated beside white people..." -
1845
Las relaciones con México deteriorated después de la United States annexed Texas. -
1846
Los estados unidos declared guerra por mexico over la frontera dispute. Los dos countries no acordaran on which rio constituted la frontera (El Río Grande por el Nueces). La guerra estaba fought en Texas, New Mexico, California y Central, Northern y Eastern Mexico. -
1847
La california oro rush comenzaba y 25,000 Mexicans llegaba tomar their oro. La Mexicanas estaba subjected to violent assaults porque of this. -
1848
La treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo fue firmar to terminar la guerra y América dieron grande area of land, which was most of the southwestern states. -
FD quote- I chose this quote to fit here because he talks about his opinions on the Mexican American war as it comes to an end, and America now owns parts of Mexico.
“In our judgment, those who have all along been loudly in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war, and heralding its bloody triumphs with apparent rapture, and in glorifying the atrocious deeds of barbarous heroism on the part of wicked men engaged in it, have no sincere love of peace, and are not now rejoicing over peace, but plunder. They have succeeded in robbing Mexico of her territory, and are rejoicing over their success under the hypocritical pretence of a regard for peace.” -
1891
La immigration Act estaba a law that provided por la inspection and deportation con immigrants. -
FD quote- I chose this quote to fit here because he is saying how the new Mexican American border affects the countries. He mentions a lot about basic human rights, and how they’re not being met. Also talks about how he does not support the outcome war
“There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are external, universal, and indestructible. Among these, is the right of locomotion; the right of migration; the right which belongs to no particular race, but belongs alike to all and to all alike. It is the right you assert by staying here, and your fathers asserted by coming here. It is this great right that I assert for the Chinese and Japanese, and for all other varieties of men equally..." -
1898
La frontera crossing estaba established at El Paso, Texas. -
1910
La Mexican Revolution comenzaba y mil of Mexicans flee a traves de America por safety. -
1914
World war 1 breaks out y America tiene a labor shortage y Mexicans estaba encouraged to trabajar en America. -
1917
El telegrama de la Zimmerman hachomos tighten frontera security. -
1924
México está exento de la Immigration Act to prohibida la entrada por otra countries. -
1929
Despues el great depression, Mexicanos estaba sent out de America y back to Mexico. -
1943
La Bracero program encouraged Mexicans trabajar en América y el nombre of migrants para Mexico began to increase again. -
1949
La frontera patrol seized 280,000 illegal immigrants -
1969
President Nixon launched Operation Intercept y comenzaba inspecting frontera crossings. Antonio Carrillo Flores, la secretary de Foreign Affairs por la Mexican government no feliz. -
1993
Bill Clinton comenzaba la 13 mile él frontera muro between San Diego y Tijuana. Compraste 39 billion dinero. -
2001
The terrorist attack por 9/11 hizo America secure sus fronteras. This hizo muy dificil to migrate to America. -
2004
La U.S frontera control hablaba que 325 gentes mueren crossing la frontera por México en uno ano. -
2006
La secure Fence Act de 2006 necesito por secure sus fronteras. Estaba 700 miles por fencing y carro barrierers. -
FD quotes- I chose the quote to go here, not because he said it around this time but because it is impactful with this time stamp. It shows how horrified he would be on how people are treating each other in this day.
"The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved. When we wanted, a few years ago, a slice of Mexico, it was hinted that the Mexicans were an inferior race, that the old Castilian blood had become so weak that it would scarcely run down hill, and that Mexico needed the long..."