1. Mexicanos Part 1 By:Ysabel Medina

2. Ch. 4 The American Southwest

3. California Gold Rush 1848 “Greasers”=Mexicans who became rich due to old mining Land Act of 1851 By 1880 only a 1/5 of the population was Mexican

5. San Antonio

6. El Paso

7. Lower Rio Grande Valley

8. Anglos were slow to populate area

9. Immigration from Mexico increased the Mexican population

12. Treaty of Mesilla

13. Gadsden Purchase

14. Old Pueblo commercial location

15. Apaches

16. Hispanic communities

17. New Mexico

18. Mexican citizens dominated area

19. Native American population

20. End of civil war brought an Anglo population

21. Railroad