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The Hispanic Americans (Multicultural America)

By Rodney P. Carlisle

Book information

Publisher
Facts On File
Year
2011
ISBN
0816078114, 9780816078110, 9781438135571
LCC
E184.A1 M814 2011
Google Books ID
JnMIRgAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7576285 bytes)
Series
Multicultural America volume 1
Edition
1
Pages
257\257
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

This volume presents the story of people of Spanish ancestry in America. Perhaps more than any other ethnocultural group in the United States, the Latino or Hispanic group has a complex history. Diff erent communities of Spanish settlers were incorporated into the United States during its 19th-century expansion. Under the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1821, Florida became part of the United States, where Spanish settlers had established forts, cities, and farms as early as the 16th century, well before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Texas seceded from Mexico in 1836. When Texas was admitted as a state to the United States in 1845, the Spanish settlers there became U.S. citizens. Locally, a distinction was made between the tejanos of Hispanic ancestry, and the Texians, who had come in from the other states of the United States.

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