remained the majority for the next 20 years. The gold rush established a pattern of North American- Mexican relations. D. The Legitimation of Violence- Vigilante mobs set the tone for a kaleidoscopic series of violent experiences for Mexicans and Latin Americans. The most flagrant act of vigilantism happened at downieville in 1851, when after a kangaroo trail, a mob lynched a Mexican woman they called Juanita. She was the first woman hanged in California. E. Currents of Resistance- From 1855 through 1859 El Clamor Publico was published in Los Angles by Ramirez. 1859 the paper went out of business. F. The Underclass- The railroad Substantially changed social relations in California. Mexicans were affected in obvious ways. Over the next three decades Mexicans played the role of a small and politically insignificant minority. Mexican labor made a transition from pastoral occupations to menial wage work. PART TWO THE CEMENTING OF AN UNDERCLASS: THE MEXICAN IN THE UNITED STATES 6 The Building of the Southwest: Mexican Labor, 1900-1930 A. Background to the Migration North from Mexico, to 1910-The first U.S. industrial revolution spread to agriculture in the Southwest by the 1859’s with McCormick’s machine reaping grain in fields that had once belonged to the Mexicans. Mining bonanzas attracted may Anglos. Railroad interest laid track linking west and west, greatly increasing, the development of interests of the Southwest. The Southwest supplied raw materials for the East. B. Nativist Reactions to the Mexican Migration, 1910-1920-By 1920 the population of Mexico reached 15.16 million. In that year, at least 382,002 persons of Mexican extraction lived in the US. In 1913 primarily due to an economic depression, the commissioner sounded the alarm, indicating that Mexicans might become a public charge. The Mexican Revolution intensified discrimination against immigrants. From the beginning of the conflict, in 1910 U.S. corporations an...
