Takaki ch. 10 Answers to the handout form class 11-5-07

1. During the war against Mexico, the Irish was pushed from their homeland by British colonialism. They ended up participating in the conquest of the Southwest.

2. Foreigners in their native land: manifest Destiny in the south west. The Irish were sent to America and they worked on the manifest destiny. They were kicked out of their homeland and had to make America their homeland.

3. English, of "Pure Spanish blood were the upper class, and the laboring class, the laborers went down by regular shades, growing more dark with "pure" Indians at the bottom.

4. The rebels said they were defending the interests of American settlers against unfair and arbitrary Mexican rule.
The center of rebellion for independence was in San Antonio.

5. Race is the Irish, Ethnicity is the Indians. The Irish had money and were white, the Indians didn't have money and the darker they were the more ethnic they were.