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=History of Mexican American Immigration- Amanda Bazan = The history of Mexican American people is wide-ranging, spanning more than four hundred years and varying from region to region within the United States. Mexican Americans were once concentrated in the states that formerly belonged to Mexico including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas when they obtained employment there during World War I. More recently, Mexican immigrants have increasingly become a large part of the workforce in industries such as meat packing throughout the midwest, in agriculture in the southeastern United States, and in the construction, landscaping, restaurant, hotel and other service industries throughout the country.Mexican American identity has also changed markedly throughout these years. In the past hundred years Mexican Americans have campaigned for voting rights, stood against educational, employment, and ethnic discrimination and stood for economic and social advancement. At the same time many Mexican Americans have struggled with defining and maintaining their community's identity. There was also a divisions between those Mexican Americans whose families had lived in the United States for two or more generations and more recent immigrants. = = =The Mexican American War- By Charla Norquest= = = The **Mexican–American War** was an armed conflict between the [|United States] and [|Mexico] from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. [|annexation of Texas], which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 [|Texas Revolution]. In addition to a naval blockade of the Mexican coast, American forces invaded and conquered New Mexico, California and parts of northern Mexico. Another American army captured Mexico City, forcing Mexico to agree to the sale of its northern territories to the U.S. [|Territorial expansion of the United States] to the [|Pacific coast] was the goal of President [|James K. Polk], the leader of the [|Democratic Party][|[1]]. However, the war was highly controversial in the U.S., with the [|Whig Party] and anti-slavery elements strongly opposed. The major consequence of the war was the [|Mexican Cession] of the territories of [|California] and [|New Mexico] to the United States in exchange for $15 million. Mexico accepted the [|Rio Grande] as its national border, and the loss of Texas. Meanwhile gold was discovered in California, which immediately became an international magnet for the [|California Gold Rush]. The political aftermath of the war raised the slavery issue in the U.S., leading to intense debates that pointed to [|civil war]; the [|Compromise of 1850] provided a brief respite

The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the [|United States] and [|Mexico] from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. [|annexation of Texas], which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 [|Texas Revolution]. In addition to a naval blockade of the Mexican coast, American forces invaded and conquered New Mexico, California and parts of northern Mexico. Another American army captured Mexico City, forcing Mexico to agree to the sale of its northern territories to the U.S. [|Territorial expansion of the United States] to the [|Pacific coast] was the goal of President [|James K. Polk], the leader of the [|Democratic Party][|[1]]. However, the war was highly controversial in the U.S., with the [|Whig Party] and anti-slavery elements strongly opposed. The major consequence of the war was the [|Mexican Cession] of the territories of [|California] and [|New Mexico] to the United States in exchange for $15 million. Mexico accepted the [|Rio Grande] as its national border, and the loss of Texas. Meanwhile gold was discovered in California, which immediately became an international magnet for the [|California Gold Rush]. The political aftermath of the war raised the slavery issue in the U.S., leading to intense debates that pointed to [|civil war] ; the [|Compromise of 1850] provided a brief respite.

The **Mexican–American War** was an armed conflict between the [|United States] and [|Mexico] from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. [|annexation of Texas], which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 [|Texas Revolution]. In addition to a naval blockade of the Mexican coast, American forces invaded and conquered New Mexico, California and parts of northern Mexico. Another American army captured Mexico City, forcing Mexico to agree to the sale of its northern territories to the U.S. [|Territorial expansion of the United States] to the [|Pacific coast] was the goal of President [|James K. Polk], the leader of the [|Democratic Party][|[1]]. However, the war was highly controversial in the U.S., with the [|Whig Party] and anti-slavery elements strongly opposed. The major consequence of the war was the [|Mexican Cession] of the territories of [|California] and [|New Mexico] to the United States in exchange for $15 million. Mexico accepted the [|Rio Grande] as its national border, and the loss of Texas. Meanwhile gold was discovered in California, which immediately became an international magnet for the [|California Gold Rush]. The political aftermath of the war raised the slavery issue in the U.S., leading to intense debates that pointed to [|civil war]; the [|Compromise of 1850] provided a brief respite

Vietnam War Draft
=== First lottery drawing since 1942 held December 1st 1969. The jar contained people whos birthdates landed between January 1, 1944 and December 31, 1950. 366 blue plastic capsules containing birth dates were placed in a large glass container and drawn by hand to assign order-of-call numbers to all men within the 18-26 age range as said in the Selective Service law. first capsule - drawn by Congressman Alexander Pirnie of the House Armed Services Committee - was the date September 14. This meant that all men born on September 14 in any year between 1944 and 1950 were assigned lottery number 1. The drawing continued until all days of the year had been paired with sequence numbers. After their number was drawn, those at the top of the list new that this meant that they will be drafted early in the year unless they volunteer first. Those at the bottom new that they will not be drafted and can plan their lives accordingly. Those in the middle were just kinda stuck. People picketed outside, puting down the draft, the lottery and the Vietnam war, but they failed to interfere with the drawing. === media type="youtube" key="zVwUEABV9mg" height="385" width="480" The little girl's dad in Carmello happens to get his number called. by:Angela Bridges