The Hispanic Americans (Multicultural America)

✍ Scribed by Rodney P. Carlisle

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Multicultural America volume 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1: The Colonial Era: Beginnings to 1776......Page 14
2: The American Revolution: 1775 to 1783......Page 32
3: The Early National Period and Expansion: 1783 to 1859......Page 52
4: The Civil War to the Gilded Age: 1859 to 1900......Page 72
5: The Progressive Era and World War I: 1900 to 1920......Page 96
6: The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression: 1920 to 1939......Page 112
7: World War II and the Forties: 1939-1949......Page 134
8: The Civil Rights Era: 1950 to 1969......Page 152
9: A Changing Community: 1970 to 1989......Page 172
10: Hispanic America Today: 1990 to the Present......Page 194
Glossary......Page 214
Index......Page 218
Photo Credits......Page 256