Who had to deal with squatters?
Mariano Vallejo
What did the new California state legislator do?
Pass a law that protecting the squatters
Where did Vallejo take his fight for his lands to?
The Supreme Court
What did Vallejo have to do in 1864?
Forced to sell the last of his 65 thousand acres
Where were vallejos his acres?
Rancho Pantaluma
What does the conquerer wish for?
His own well being
Feudalism and backwardness were replaced by?
Democracy
Latinos were destined for?
Extinction
There was a thought, that like the native Americans, Mexicans would?
Wither away
What did the ease by which the Anglos were able to concur Mexicans proof of?
Anglo superiority
Progress was in the hands of?
The Americans
Why did the Anglos think that the Mexicans would eventually wither away?
because they can't sustain themselves with the presence of Anglo American culture
Why was San Diego in ruins?
There was no one there to farm or do any work
Who cheated Apolonaria Lorenzana out of her land?
An American Cornell
What did Apolonaria Lorenzana (the orphan girl) devote her life to?
The missions
After working for so many years and owning property. Who was living off by the grace of god and those who give me a morsel to eat?
Apolonaria Lorenzana
What did New Mexico insist on on maintaining?
the spanish language, spanish cultural traditions, spanish religious traditions
30 years after the Mexican American war who held much of New Mexico's economic and political standing?
The Hispano elite
Californianos and Tejanos were over whelmed by?
The American expansion
Where were there more Mexican Americans at the dawn of the U.S. Mexico war?
New Mexico (there was more there than California and Texas)
Where New Mexican landholding families send their children off to school?
Harvard and Sr.
Louis in the Midwest
Where did wealthy Miguel Antonio otero study law at?
St. Louis university
Otero was elected?
Delegate of the u.s. congress
Otero is is instrumental to bringing what?
in bringing in the railroad into northern New Mexico
Railroads in New Mexico brought?
Economic progress
What connected the territory from Kansas to Chicago?
Railroads
What did new Mexicanos see the railroads as?
A threat
With the railroad came?
Cattle ranchers
With the ranchers came?
Barbed wire
What did the barbed wire cut through?
Lands held in common by the Nuevo Mexicanos
"Con el alambre
Vino el hambre"
With barbed wire
Came hunger
What happened to the lands that had been used to raise animals and to raise crops?
They were fenced off
What did people do when they realized they were loosing their land?
They fought back
What where the three Herrera brothers name?
Pablo, Nicanor, Juan Jose Herrera
How much land were the Herrera brothers trying to protect with the resistance?
Half a million acres
Who were the Herrera brothers trying to protect the land from?
Cattle ranchers
How large might the Gorras Blanca's been?
11 hundred men
What did the Gorras Blanca's do riding by moonlight?
they tore off track, burned railroad bridges and barns, cut miles of barbed wire
When were Herrera brothers and 44 others arrested?
November 1889
How many, along with the Herrera brothers, were arrested on November 1889?
44 others
Why was it hard to find a jury that could be persuaded to punish their fellow citizens?
for acts though illegal they in their own hearts feel to be right
The charges on the Gorras Blanca's were?
Dismissed
When did the Gorras Blanca's disband?
1891
The fencings in San Miguel counties?
Stopped
