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Ch. 27.3

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The U.S. acquired territory where Mexicans lived

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The U.S. acquired territory where Mexicans lived

The numbers of Mexicans living in the Southwest steadily increased in the 1800's because

Most Mexican Americans in the Southwest lived in these, which were a product of the region's history and discrimination against Latinos.

In the 1930's, federal officials launched a series of deportations of immigrants from Mexico and often their American born children.

In 1954, the Eisenhower administration began a program that deported more than this many Mexicans over a three-year period.

The league of United Latin American Citizens

The purpose of this organization was to fight discrimination against persons of Latin American ancestry.