https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu This timeline focuses on Latinx history in the US from 1850-1930. Please place your items on the timeline and drag them to the proper place so that they are in chronological order from left to right. en-us 2021-02-02 03:21:58 UTC 2025-11-11 13:27:09 UTC hello@padlet.com gconnolly9 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158628553 The Spanish government frees all the slaves it owns in Cuba and Puerto Rico, as well as all slaves 60 and older in the Moret Law. In Puerto Rico, this resulted in the freeing of around 10,000 out of a total of 40,000 slaves, but the law was never really enforced in Cuba, as this would have resulted in the freeing of a much higher proportion of enslaved people (357,000 out of 950,000). Although an important step forward, it fell well short of ending slavery on Spanish-held soil.
Moret Law
Background]]> 2021-02-03 13:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158628553 ggrygalis https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158634964 In 1904, Isabel González paved the way for Puerto Ricans to become American citizens. She was a Puerto Rican activist who wanted to go to the Unites States to find the father of her unborn child. When she arrived, she was excluded as an alien, which led to her challenging the government in the case Gonzales v. Williams. This case brought light to the issue of citizenship status of those who live in territories acquired by the United States.]]> 2021-02-03 13:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158634964 sahearn4 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158642694 Chinese and Latin American people were encouraged to come to the United States as laborers (miners). The employers liked them because they were cheap labor. But, the white people here primarily the Irish and the German felt threatened, and that their jobs were being taken. This prompted the Foreign Miners Tax which placed a tax on Chinese and Mexican immigrants. This was done in hopes of discouraging further immigration.]]> 2021-02-03 13:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158642694 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158643963 During the Spanish-American war America had a large military force stationed in Cuba. Once the war ended America signed a treaty with Cuba forcing Cuba to give what is now known as Guantanamo Bay as well as allowing America to intervene for the "preservation of Cuban independence" basically forcing Cuba in a subservient position to the United States]]> 2021-02-03 13:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158643963 mlee228 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158645035 The Immigration Act (or the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) was put in place to filter people immigrating to the US, including but not limited to: idiots, imbeciles, people with diseases and the poor. To be able to tell who was essentially intelligent or not, immigrants were given literacy tests. The barred zone, in which no one from this area was allowed to enter the U.S. at any given time, was from the Middle East to Southeast Asia. Though it wasn't necessarily barred, one of the goals of this act was to limit the amount of Europeans entering the United States. Part of this act required "aliens" to pay $8 tax regularly admitted.]]> 2021-02-03 13:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158645035 xchen25 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158651029 The Homestead Act, signed by Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, states that all adult citizens, who has never bear arms against the United States are granted 160 acres of government land with the incentive that the landowners would live on the land and cultivate the land. This act encourages settlements in the west and westward expansion. It also meant that immigrants, slaves, women, and other minority groups who can gain citizenship were able to own land legally in the United States.]]> 2021-02-03 13:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158651029 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158657027 (Lila C.)In 1900, after the end of the Spanish-American war, the United States began deciding what territory they wanted. When Puerto Rico came into question about what they were going to do with it, Joseph Foraker, who is pictured above came up with the plan that Puerto Rico would get a seat on the senate, but could not vote. This has impacted Puerto Ricans and Latino people because they are being controlled and governed by the United States, but have absolutely no control over anything that happens, when every other state does. ]]> 2021-02-03 13:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158657027 shanlon9 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158661143 On January 6, New Mexico enters the union as a "bilingual state." A main reason why they were not entered earlier was the fears Americans had regarding "New Mexico's essentially foreign culture." On the other hand, part of the want to include New Mexico in the union was their impressive economy and population size. However, in the State Constitution, it was ruled that schools could not be segregated based on "Spanish descent." ]]> 2021-02-03 13:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158661143 jbailey191 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158661646 The Ostend Manifesto, written by James Buchanan, was a document urging the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain. The reason that people wanted the United States to take over Cuba was because they wanted to expand slavery. This reasoning sparked tensions between the North and South, contributing to the Civil War.]]> 2021-02-03 13:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158661646 xliao3 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158692672 On March 2nd of 1917, President Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act which granted Puerto Ricans statutory US citizenship. This means that the citizenship was granted by the Congress and not by the Constitution. As a result, the act created a bill of rights for Puerto Rico which separated its government into the executive, legislative, and judiciary branches. The country’s official language is also determined to be English. In addition, Puerto Ricans could now participate in U.S elections and send a non-voting representative to the congress.]]> 2021-02-03 13:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158692672 wdavis36 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158697384 Previously the "Frontier Ranger Battalion", after new legislation was passed in 1901, the "Texas rangers" or " Los diablos tejanos" (The Texan devils) were founded. They were a group of law enforcement tasked with "protecting" the Mexican border. This came from a lack of resource for a proper military, but need for protection from perceived hostilities at the Mexican border. Divided into Companies of 20 men, these gray-area law enforcers were a dangerous and violent group. An investigation revealed they killed anywhere between 300 and 5,000 hispanic men, women, and children. They did execution-style killings, and also lynched. ]]> 2021-02-03 13:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158697384 fmccleary2 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158699498 The League of United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC is founded in 1929. The group is made because of the concerning amounts of discrimination and hatred that Latin Americans are receiving at the time. The growing Mexican American population after the Mexican War were being segregated and discriminated against so harshly that they decided they needed to create an organization to defend themselves. With this in mind three groups are founded: The League of Latin American Citizens, The Knights of America, and The Order of the Sons of America. Eventually, in February of 1929 these three groups combine and form LULAC with Ben Garza as their president. The group fought against the horrid discrimination that Mexican Americans were facing in the time of the groups creation and even now to this day the group fights for equality among all Latin people. ]]> 2021-02-03 13:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158699498 zprice2 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158705735 At the height of the Great Depression, Mexican Immigrants an Mexican Americans were rounded up by the government and sent to to Mexico. This was because of President Hoover’s campaign in the 1930s: “American jobs for real Americans.” Local laws were passed to forbid any government employment of people of Mexican descent. Other companies like Ford followed suit. The bad economy during the time caused Americans to easily find Mexicans as a scapegoat for the countries’ problems. Research showed that about 1.8 million Mexicans were deported during the crises of the 1930s, and 60% of those people were full American citizens. This is significant today to Mexicans, Latinx people, Hispanics, and Spanish people because during Trump’s presidency, the ICE raids and zero-tolerance policy was all-too similar to the Harris Bill and we need to recognize that when our country is in a political or economic crisis, it is never a reasonable solution to target a single group of people for a whole country’s problem. 

]]> 2021-02-03 13:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158705735 cmccarthy121 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158735380 In 1928, Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo became the first Hispanic American to serve in the U.S senate. The previous Senator serving before him, was Andrieus A. Jones, who was the New Mexico senator. When he was in office he passed away, so Larrazolo got elected to fill his unexpired term. Larrazolo who was born in Chihuahua, Mexico took his seat on December 7th, 1928.]]> 2021-02-03 14:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158735380 cmccarthy121 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158743681 2021-02-03 14:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1158743681 kkelley161 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1163666657 In 1915, this League was founded by Mexicans in Arizona in order to support the Latino population and oversee any potentially harmful legislation from the government. The League claimed more than 500 members and was founded by the man above, Manuel Gonzales. To join, members each paid $1 the first year and $5 annually. The League sought legislation in order to protective these individuals.]]> 2021-02-04 13:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1163666657 lconroy9 https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1163778405 On December 10th 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed. Under the Treaty of Paris, Puerto Rico ceded to the US. This caused the US to then implement new language policy. This included all high school classes were to be taught in English instead of Spanish which was the most known language there. They did this because they wanted Puerto Rican boys and girls to advocate for American colonialism.]]> 2021-02-04 14:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/freemanjud/lwuhet614af3m0iu/wish/1163778405