Film Response & Reflection M6 Episode 1 Latino Americans

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Answer questions in a thoughtful, clear, and complete manner by writing several full sentences and including specific examples in your responses. You are encouraged to make connections to previous assignments, other courses, and your own life experience. Please use the same numbering system and include the questions in your document.  Do not use direct quotations. It is essential that you learn to paraphrase or summarize. You will be expected to use MLA in-text citations and Works Cited at the end of each assignment for the primary source article and any other articles or websites you used to develop your response. Italicize works of art, just as you would like books and film. Respond to Episodes 1 of the PBS Documentary Latino Americans.  Episode 1: Foreigners in Their Own Land Think about the different ways that Mexican citizens came to terms with the expansion of the United States and the ways in which they became foreigners in their own lands within a very short time. What did U.S. expansion mean for Latinos personally? Were they able to preserve their status, property and rights? If so, how? If not, what happened to them and how did they respond? A combination of attitudes, economic strategies and brute force were used to erode Mexican rights and social structures in California and Texas. What are some examples of these different tactics? Compare the experience of California and Texas with that of New Mexico. How and why was the experience of U.S. expansion different there? Often, traditional views of U.S. history look westward and move from East to West. What other perspectives and issue are present?