Groups Settlements Wars Chicano Movement Mexican American Today Teaching Strategies Mexican Americans

Groups- 10 Points Return to Game Board Only about 300,000 of this ethnic group from Spain came to the Americas during three centuries of settlement. What are Spaniards?

Groups- 20 Points Return to Game Board The Mestizos were offspring of these two ethnically mixed unions. What are Spanish men and Indian women?

Groups- 30 Points Return to Game Board This group is anyone whose native language is Spanish. What is Hispanic?

Groups- 40 Points Return to Game Board A group of people that live in the United States, speak Spanish, and are considered Hispanic. What are Latinos?

Groups- 50 Points Return to Game Board This group was in the land that is now the United States before all other American groups, except the American Indians, Aleuts, Eskimos, and Native Hawaiians. Who are Mexican Americans?

Settlements- 10 Points Return to Game Board Spain had a smaller number of settlers than this country in the Americas. What is England?

Settlements - 20 Points Return to Game Board More English than Spanish colonists brought this with them to the Americas. What are wives?

Settlements – 30 Points Return to Game Board A severe shortage of this item caused men to pay 54 kg of the best tobacco for it. What is a woman?

Settlements – 40 Points Return to Game Board Mestizos was a new “race” that formed when these two ethnic groups reproduced. What are Spanish and Indians?

Settlements – 50 Points Return to Game Board Mexican biological heritage is actually more of this than Spanish. What is Indian? Double Jeopardy – Extra question

Wars- 10 Points Return to Game Board In 1836, this president led several thousand Mexican troops into Texas. His army killed 187 Texans at the Alamo. Who is Santa Anna?

Wars- 20 Points Return to Game Board In 1877, this war occurred, in which Mexicans organized and rebelled against Anglos because of a dispute over rights to salt beds. What is the El Paso Salt War?

Wars- 30 Points Return to Game Board A revolution started in Mexico in 1910 causing thousands of Mexicans to immigrate to the United States looking for jobs and to escape political turmoil and persecution. What is the Mexican Revolution of 1910?

Wars- 40 Points Return to Game Board The U.S. declared war on Mexico in 1846 when a boundary dispute developed between the two nations. What is the Mexican American War?

Wars – 50 Points Return to Game Board When the U.S. defeated Mexico in 1846, Mexico signed this treaty in which Mexico ceded 1/3 of all its territory to the United States. What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Chicano Movement – 10 Points Return to Game Board Prior to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, this was a term used to refer to lower-class Mexican immigrants from rural areas and small towns. What is Chicano?

Chicano Movement– 20 Points Return to Game Board Mexican American organizations, such as Las Gorras Blancas, fought these leaders who were illegally taking land owned by Mexican Americans in New Mexico. Who were Anglos?

Chicano Movement– 30 Points Return to Game Board In the first decades of the twentieth century, most Mexican Americans worked in this. What is Agriculture?

Chicano Movement– 40 Points Return to Game Board From strikes and union activities continued in the midst of oppressive tactics, but they continued to be frustrated by this. What is repression and discrimination?

Chicano Movement– 50 Points Return to Game Board Many Chicano civil rights leaders, including this head of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, successfully fought to return land to Chicanos and improve education and housing for Mexican Americans. Who is Cesar Chavez

Mexican Americans Today- 10 Points Return to Game Board Although Mexican Americans made many gains during the 1960s, these gains faded during the 1970s and 1980s. One of the major factors was the conservative national policies during these years. What is Reagan?

Mexican Americans Today- 20 Points Return to Game Board Various Hispanic groups such as Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and this group formed alliances to improve the economic and educational status of U.S. Hispanics. What is Cubans?

Mexican Americans Today- 30 Points Return to Game Board In 2001, there were 20 Hispanics in this branch of Congress. What is the House of Representatives?

Mexican Americans Today- 40 Points Return to Game Board Children of the new middle class Mexican American often have little knowledge of this. What is traditional Mexican American culture in the United States.

Mexican Americans Today- 50 Points Return to Game Board Although large populations of Mexican Americans are concentrated in such cities as Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Denver, and Chicago, many Mexican Americans now live and work in mainstream White institutions and have little contact with this. What is the Hispanic Barrio?

Teaching Strategies– 10 Points Return to Game Board In the primary grades, it is appropriate to introduce this concept of thinking about a group of people that is often harmful to individuals and groups. What is stereotyping?

Teaching Strategies– 20 Points Return to Game Board To teach primary grades about stereotypes, have them think about different groups such as these. What are boys, girls, rich people, poor people, and fat people?

Teaching Strategies– 30 Points Return to Game Board Have students in Intermediate and Upper Grades come up with this to explain why so many Mexicans immigrated to the U.S. during 1910 and What is a hypothesis?

Teaching Strategies– 40 Points Return to Game Board Have students research the conditions of the Early Mexican immigrants to this country. What is the United States?

Teaching Strategies - 50 Points Return to Game Board Use this effective teaching tool to incorporate visual and interactive learning. What is Jeopardy?!