Purpose: To exercise reading, analytical, and critical thinking skills of a set of primary sources and secondary sources around a particular historical period.
Skills: Learn and practice how to read a primary source. Learn and practice how to read a secondary source. Learn and practice how to make an argument. Learn and practice how to use evidence from the primary source and secondary source to support your analysis. Learn and practice how to do Chicago Style Footnotes.
Knowledge: By completing this assignment, you will understand the major historical debates and current interpretations of the period of Conquest and Statehood.
Essay Prompt: Choose one of the following essay questions to write on.
Q1 From Conquest to Repatriation: Rebuilding Mexican American Communities (This will be the one to be worked on NOT Q2 that is show in one of the attachements)
After the U.S. government declared war on Mexico, California became a part of U.S. conquest. Land once granted to Mexicans under Mexico-governed California were no longer observed under U.S. governed-California. The gold rush drew hundreds of thousands of new migrants that outnumbered and racially targeted Mexicans. Still, Mexican migration continued steadily into the 1910s and 1920s and formed communities that participated in progressive movements. By the 1930s, Mexican Americans developed a number of strategies to improve their economic standing, but faced the onset of the Great Depression. How did Mexican Americans and Mexican migrants’ strategies for defending and rebuilding their communities change to meet the shifting political terrains of the Gold Rush (1850s-1870s), Progressive Era (1910s-1920s), and Great Depression (1930s)? Use three secondary and three primary sources to support your thesis.
Sources will be listed below and pdfs will be uploaded.
There will be 4 attachments of the requirement of the paper and what the professor is looking for. Thank you !
1Primary source:
Writings of Father Junipero Serra
Pablo Tac
1Secondary source:
Chapter 5: Junipero Serra Across the Three Generations
Chapter 1: Colonial Settlements on Indigenous Lands
2Primary Source:
John O’ Sullivan Declares Manifest Destiny
More Like a Pig Than a Bear
2Secondary Source:
Independent Indians and the U.S. Mexican War
War in California
3Primary Source:
Life Joaquin Murieta
Mason v. Smith
3Secondary Source:
Remaking Slavery in a Free State: Masters and Slaves in Gold Rush California
Dame Shirely Describes Like in a California Mining Camp
4Primary Source:
Later from San Diego – The Indian War Not Yet Ended
Excerpt from Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona
Governor Bigler vs. Merchant Asing
4Secondary Source:
Chapter 1 The Chinese Question
Native Californians in the Nineteenth Century
5Primary Source:
Dese a la Mujer de California El Derecho de Votar
Argument Against Women’s Suffrage, 1911
5Secondary Source:
Constructing the Woman Citizen and Struggling for the Vote in California 1896-1911
6Primary Source:
The Japanese Evil in California
Susie Yamamoto
Letter to San Diego’s Mexican and Mexican American population 1932
6Secondary Source:
Chapter 1: The Rural New Woman
Invisible Borders: Repatriation and Colonization of Mexican Migrant Workers along the California Borderlands during the 1930s
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