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	Mexican American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ethnonym Mexican American is the usual term of self description for people with strong ties to both the United States of America and Mexico.
		Mexican Americans account for 64% of the Hispanic or Latino population of the United States.
		The proximity of the two countries, a continuous influx of new arrivals, concentration in predominantly Mexican barrios and colonias and Spanish-language media enable Mexican immigrants to maintain ties with relatives in Mexico and the Spanish language to a degree not possible for previous immigrant groups with their respective countries of origin and native tongues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mexican_American (2585 words)

	Mexican–American War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Americans were already in California, coming by way of the California Trail, and American ships had been exchanging goods for hides and tallow along the coast of California.
		Taylor ignored Mexican demands to withdraw to the Nueces and began constructing a make-shift fort (later known as Fort Brown) on the banks of the Rio Grande opposite the Mexican town of Matamoros.
		In 1846, the Mexican territory of California was thinly populated, with small and scattered settlements of both Spanish-speaking Californios and Hispanos and English-speaking immigrants, and both were outnumbered by the Native American populations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mexican-American_War (4813 words)

	The Mexican War
		Mexican leaders clearly expected to win these battles as well as to recover Texas and win the war.
		The Americans were susceptible to subtropical diseases and found it difficult to maintain sanitary conditions in the camps.
		Mexican losses were estimated at more than 4,000 killed and wounded and more than 2,500 prisoners; by contrast, American losses were slightly more than 1,000.
	www.lnstar.com /mall/texasinfo/mexicow.htm (4040 words)

	Mexican-American War @ ArtByTexans.com (Art by Texans) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		All of this area was claimed by the Mexican republic for 25 years subsequent to its independence from the Spanish Empire which acquired these territories by the conquest of the Aztec Empire and various local tribes.
		After the Mexican War of Independence, Mexico inherited ownership of the North American territories from colonial Spain and the westward migration of U.S. settlers continued.
		The new Mexican government, weakened and virtually bankrupt from the Mexican War of Independence, found it difficult to administer its northern territories, hundreds of miles from Mexico City, the nation's capital but brutally put down rebellions in its southern territories.
	www.artbytexans.com /encyclopedia/Mexican-American_War (4489 words)

	The Mexican War
		On the 6th, when the Mexicans began to plant cannon in the rear and Major Brown was mortally wounded, the signals were given, and Taylor marched for the Rio Grande on the evening of the 7th, with a little more than 2,000 men, having been reinforced by Texan volunteers and marines from the fleet.
		The Americans fell back to Buena Vista, within 11 miles of Saltillo, and encamped in a narrow defile, and there a severe battle was fought, Feb. 23, resulting in victory for the Americans.
		The president of the Mexican Congress assumed provisional authority, and, on Feb. 2, 1848, that body concluded a treaty of peace with the United States commissioners at Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /mexican-war/war.htm (2605 words)

	The History Guy: The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)
		First, the desire of the U.S. to expand across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean caused conflict with all of its neighbors; from the British in Canada and Oregon to the Mexicans in the southwest and, of course, with the Native Americans.
		As American forces penetrated into the Mexican heartland, some of the defending forces resorted to guerrilla tactics to harass the invaders, but these irregular forces did not greatly influence the outcome of the war.
		Mexican military leadership was often lacking, at least when compared to the American leadership.
	www.historyguy.com /Mexican-American_War.html (2331 words)

	Mexican-American War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		After having won its independence from Mexico in 1836, the Republic of Texas was annexed by the Imperialist United States in 1845; however, the southern and western borders of Texas remained disputed during the Republic's lifetime.
		Taylor crossed the Nueces, ignoring Mexican demands that he withdraw, and marched south to the Rio Grande where he began to build Fort Brown.
		Mexican casualties remain somewhat of a mystery, and are estimated at 25,000.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mexican_American_War (1219 words)

	Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - 1848
		The Mexican commissioners, however, insisted on having both banks of the Rio Grande and all of California up to the neighborhood of San Francisco, besides receiving damages for injuries inflicted by the American troops in their invasions.
		When the Mexican commissioners made advances for peace at the beginning of the year 1848, they were given terms almost as liberal as those offered them before Scott had stormed and occupied their capital.
		The Mexican War has generally been condemned by American historians as "the foulest blot on our national honor," a war forced upon Mexico by slaveholders greedy for new territory, a perfect illustration of La Fontaine's fable of the wolf picking a quarrel with the lamb solely for an excuse to devour him.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist6/muzzey.html (1910 words)

	Mexican American Traditions in Nebraska
		But this is not new, for many of the established Mexican American families in Nebraska came generations ago to work in meat-packing, on the railroads, or in the sugar beet fields in the western part of the state.
		Mexican Americans in Nebraska, as in other areas of the country and even in Mexico, no longer follow the custom, nor do they engage in traditional celebrations of the Day of the Dead with their ancestors on November 2.
		While the experiences of Mexican Americans are different, depending on their place of origin and length of time in the United States, most have experienced racism and discrimination in everyday life.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /lib-arch/whadoin/mexampub/traditns.htm (3563 words)

	De Proverbio - Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies. Proverbs, Quotations, Sayings, Wellerisms.
		Mexican Americans share with speakers of Spanish throughout the world a notably rich and varied proverb repertoire--largely though not entirely derived from Peninsular Spain--and a vital and continuing tradition of proverb use that appears to contrast significantly, at least in some aspects, with that of Anglo-American society in general.
		Of the 304 informants of Mexican origin who have participated in the survey so far, 77, or approximately one fourth, were born in the United States, although not necessarily in California.
		Comparisons and exaggerations contributed by Mexican American informants are included in the volume of collectanea cited in note 2.
	www.deproverbio.com /DPjournal/DP,1,2,95/MEXICAN_AMERICAN_PROVERBS.html (2099 words)

	The Mexican American War
		Polk further encouraged the Mexicans to commence open conflict by leaving Taylor with precious few men in the face of a significantly larger Mexican force, inciting the Mexicans to try their hand against the Americans.
		It is commonly assumed that the Mexicans actually fired the first shot of the war by ambushing an American patrol in the Rio Grande area, although it is unknown as to whether this occurred on the Mexican or American side of the border.
		The origin of this border dispute that lead to the commencement of the war was undoubtedly instigated by Polk with the annexation of Texas, resolved by congress in 1844.
	www.geocities.com /cvallence007/RI335-Assignment.html (1139 words)

	LAC Mexican American
		Before distinctions were made between "Mexican" and "American," there were indigenous peoples who lived in the areas that are now politically defined as Mexico and the United States.
		Because Mexican American teenagers at the time adopted the dress fashion known as "drapes," resembling the zoot suits worn by young men in Harlem, they were called "zoot-suiters," and were typecast as hoodlums.
		The press claimed that the Mexican zoot-suiters were planning retribution on the white residents, so on June 7 hundreds surged into the streets of Los Angeles, beating and stripping off the clothes of Mexican American youths.
	www.msmc.la.edu /ccf/LAC.Mexican.html (2272 words)

	Mexican-American War
		On March 24, 1846, an American army commanded by General Zachary Taylor encamped along the northern banks of the Rio Grande, directly across the river from Mexican soldiers.
		A portion of the Mexican Army crossed the Rio Grande and engaged a body of eighty dragoons, killing eleven of them and capturing most of the rest.
		The Mexican War combined with the overland trail migrations and the gold rush of 1849 bought about the fulfillment of "Manifest Destiny".
	www.nps.gov /fosc/mexican.htm (1066 words)

	Cultural Diversity: Eating in America, Mexican-American, HYG-5255-95
		The difference between Mexican, Puerto Rican, and other Latin American countries includes 500 years of separate history, as well as entirely different native populations that were present when the Spaniards arrived.
		Thus, the Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Latin American cultures each have a completely different concept of what foods are appropriate and what these foods are called.
		The Mexican diet of today is rich in a variety of foods and dishes that represent a blend of pre-Columbian, Spanish, French, and more recently, American culture.
	ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/5000/5255.html (1106 words)

	The Mexican American War
		When the Mexicans refused to meet with a US envoy sent to negotiate a settlement of outstanding issues, President Polk ordered American forces to maneuver close to the Mexican border in disputed territory.
		The Mexicans attacked and the war was on.
		The Age of Jackson, the Westward Expansion, the Mexican American War and discovery of gold in California are all covered.
	www.multied.com /mexican (89 words)

	MBEAW: Mexican American History, Life & Values
		Mexican immigrant family life and social deterioration in the Yakima Valley.
		"Carne, carnales and the carnivalesque: Bakhtinian batos, disorder, and narrative discourses," American Ethnologist 16,3 (8/89):471-86.
		Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1994).
	www.mbeaw.org /resources/history/mexicanamerican.html (2930 words)

	Mexican American Studies & Research Center -- Home
		The Mexican American Studies & Research Center is committed to contemporary applied public policy research on Mexican Americans.
		In 1968 a group of Mexican American faculty members at the University of Arizona came together to form the Mexican American Studies Program in response to student and community demands for change.
		The need for a Center was a result of the failure of higher education to perform the necessary research on Mexican Americans in Arizona and throughout the country.
	masrc.arizona.edu (289 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		On assuming the American presidency in 1845, James K. Polk attempted to secure Mexican agreement to setting the boundary at the Rio Grande and to the sale of northern California.
		On April 25 the Mexican troops at Matamoros crossed the river and ambushed an American patrol.
		Initial American strategy called for a blockade of the Mexican coast and the occupation of the northern Mexican states in the unrealistic hope that these measures would lead to an acceptable territorial settlement.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/qdm2.html (872 words)

	A History of the Mexican-American People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The book then scans the North American continent in the 1 19th century, highlighting Mexico's achievement of independence from Spain and consequent loss of its northernmost territories to the United States.
		The third part of the book evaluates the impact of the Mexican Revolution on both sides of the border and the effect of mass migrations from Mexico.
		Samora then tackles the complex and decisive events from The mid-i 9505 through the present such as the problems of transition from rural to urban life, the question of discrimination, and the search for civil rights.
	www.jsri.msu.edu /museum/pubs/MexAmHist (288 words)

	Mexican American War - Liberty - Themepark
		Make the acquaintance of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the Mexican president and general during the Mexican American War.
		It was a philosophy or attitude held by many Americans in 1800s.
		It was felt that this expansion was so inevitable that force could be used in the expansion and the rights of the native peoples were important.
	www.uen.org /themepark/liberty/mexicanamericanwar.shtml (685 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mexican American
		In U.S. states where Mexican Americans make up a significant percentage of the population, such as California and Texas, Mexican Americans almost exclusively occupy most blue-collar occupations, such as restaurant workers, janitors, truck drivers, gardeners, construction laborers, material moving workers, and other manual labor.
		Mexican Americans have held different forms of status at different times throughout the history of the United States, and during most times of the history of the United States, Mexicans have been considered racially non-White.
		Despite their "legal" status today as white, and even their claim to a partial European heritage (see Mestizo), most Mexican Americans are seen as socially and racially non-White.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mexican-American (2481 words)

	Mexican Americans - Their History and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Mexican government plays a major role in planning the economy and owns and operates some basic industries (including the petroleum industry) and means of transport.
		It was taken in 1847 by Winfield Scott's American army, after an inland march from Veracruz in the Mexican War.
		In 1531 a Native American, Juan Diego, reported to Archbishop Zumrraga a series of miraculous visions of the Virgin Mary on the hill of Tepeyacac.
	www.mexicanamericans.com (6948 words)

	American Merchant Marine in Mexican-American War
		The Mexican War was the first war in which the U.S. Army invaded an enemy's territory by sea, and thus required the use of a large number of oceangoing vessels.
		The Quartermaster General reported that the lack of suitable harbors in Texas necessitated, "the debarkation of troops and heavy stores by the slow and precarious process of lightering, during what is, in the Gulf of Mexico, the dreaded hurricane season.
		The landing of the American forces under General Winfield Scott at Vera Cruz, Mexico, on March 9, 1847, [shown at left] required the charter or purchase by the Quartermaster General of 54 steam vessels, 4 ships, 2 barks, 8 brigs, 34 schooners, and 201 other boats.
	www.usmm.org /mexicanwar.html (400 words)

	MEXonline.com Mexican History Directory
		Information on Mexican history, famous battles, constitutions, treaties & documents, heroes, missions, and information about the people.
		The Mexican Revolution of 1910, how it started on November of that year.
		Pancho Villa, legendary figure of the Mexican Revolution.
	www.mexonline.com /history.htm (161 words)

	Mexican-American War
		If he could make the American people identify the name Tyler with American expansion, maybe he could overcome the disdain of both the Democrats and the Whigs (Combs 88).
		The Mexicans, however, did not acknowledge this boundary and instead believed that it was the Nueces River.
		So, the Americans believed they were on Texan (soon to be American) soil, while the Mexicans believed that the Americans were on Mexican soil (Lavender 130).
	www.azteca.net /aztec/war/Mexican-American-War.html (1359 words)

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