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The. northwest portion of Mexico, called Baja California, is separated from the. Gulf of California. The Sierra Madre, an. Rocky Mountain chain, divides into the Oriental range to. Occidental range to the west. The central highlands. Mexico's 7. 5 million people live, lies in. Overall, Mexico occupies 7. Over time, these early. Olmec. Teotihuacan, Mayan, Toltec, Zapotec, Mixtec, and Aztec societies, the. In 1. 51. 7 Spanish explorer Francisco. Fern. By 1. 52. 1 the Spanish conquistador. Hernando Cort. For. Mexico, or New Spain, would remain under colonial. An unequal distribution of land. Their discontent resulted. Spain in 1. 82. 1. Mining was. revitalized and foreign trade increased. Dynamic growth brought relative. ![]() As the century ended. Those residing in. Most. residents of urban areas, if they were lucky enough to have full. The. economic depression of 1. Ram. After Francisco Madero, the newly elected. Mexico, he likewise agreed to self- exile but was assassinated by. General Victoriano de la Huerta, the man who next assumed. Violence escalated into a bloody and prolonged civil. Revolution of 1. 91. The turmoil and bloodshed motivated. United States. From the perspective of the. PNR. (Partido Nacional Revolucionario/National Revolutionary Party), and. PRI (Partido Revolucionario. Institucional/Institutional Revolutionary Party), a nonviolent revolution. Ruiz, p. National presidents focused on promoting. Expanding industrialization has provided additional jobs for greater. The projected benefits from commercial accords such as. North American Free Trade Agreement have yet to materialize, but. Latin American nations. Continued. single- party rule by the PRI, high levels of unemployment. In increasing. proportions since the late 1. United States, where the economic. To reverse this movement of manpower out of. Mexico will have to continue to. As the proportion of North American settlers in these lands. Mexico might outlaw slavery, and resented the imposition. Mexico City (Oscar Mart. Sporadic insurrections occurred after a new president, General. Antonio L. Santa Anna. Alamo in San Antonio but was later defeated in the Battle of. San Jacinto. Santa Anna later signed the Velasco Agreement in Washington. D. C., which formally recognized the independence of present- day Texas. The Lone Star Republic was admitted. Union as the State of Texas in 1. The capture of Mexico City was. Six years later, in order to. United States. purchased an additional 3. Mexican land for $1. This acquisition was made final through the Gadsden Treaty of. Carlos Cort. Those. During this same period and on into the. Mexico to Texas. By 1. Mexican ancestry lived in the United States, principally. Spaniards and Mexicans prior to 1. The Reclamation Act of 1. The Mexican Revolution of 1. U. S. Though the wages. Mexican migrants in these decades were quite low, they. Mexico. Most importantly, the number of jobs for foreign laborers seemed. World War I and on into the early 1. However, since the. Border Patrol in 1. The actual number may be. Cort. Rural areas of California. Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas attracted a vast majority of. World War I, mounting numbers of. Chicago. They were attracted by jobs in industry, railroads. Alternatively, they remained in the United States for a. Mexican migrants to the United. States sent over $1. Carey. Mc. Williams. North from Mexico. During these same decades, men might. United States and return for their. Mexico permanently in a not- too- distant future. It is. estimated that about one- half of those immigrants who entered the United. States from 1. 90. Mexico (Matt Meier and Feliciano. Mexican Americans/American Mexicans. Though approximately. Mexicans entered the United States during these years, over 5. Repatriation. Program, which sought to extradite those Mexicans without proper. The Mexican government since the 1. Mexico. In the 1. United States. (Richard Griswold del Castillo. La familia. p. Despite federal legislation to limit the numbers. United States in the 1. Mexican migrants crossing the border totaled 4. It is estimated that approximately one million. United States legally between 1. The number of. undocumented workers has increased consistently since the 1. Mexico in the late 1. Meier and Rivera, pp. The availability of jobs in the United States, coupled with high. Mexican economy. served to encourage this continued migration northward. In 1. 99. 0 the estimated proportion had risen to. Meier and Rivera, p. Los Angeles had among the highest. Hispanics of major cities of the world and by far the greatest. Mexican in origin. Census Bureau report, approximately 1. Mexican ancestry lived in the United States, a figure which. Hispanic population in the country. Over 6. 6 percent of the. Mexican ancestry were born in the United States, while 7. The Pacific states, led by. California, held 4. West Central states, led by Texas. The states with the highest populations. Mexican Americans are, in descending sequence: California, Texas. Illinois, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Florida, and Washington. The procedures of these courts were biased against the. English and in locations less accessible to Mexican. U. S. Sociology. p. Small landholders were particularly vulnerable. Land companies. often successfully appropriated the holdings of isolated Mexican villagers. In some instances, these taxes were. Mexicans, then lowered after they were. Anglo American families or land agents. Cort. In New Mexico, Las. Gorras Blancas, a vigilante group, destroyed rail lines and the. Griswold del Castillo, p. In Texas, the. decade- long Cortina War started in 1. After shooting a deputy sheriff. Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and some followers conducted a prolonged series of. Brownsville, in part to avenge the. Anglo Americans had scorned and insulted. Mexican locals. In defense of Mexican property rights, Cortina declared. Mexicans perceived Anglo Americans to be . Besides a small minority of. Mexican families with extensive landholdings, the preponderant. United States in 1. As greater. numbers came north in search of work, the wages of those Mexicans already. United States were held down due to the abundant supply of. Though. not all Anglo Americans living in the same areas inhabited by Mexicans. Whereas the. immigrants from Mexico were predominantly Catholic, most of the people who. Texas, California, and the other territories were of Protestant. The religious wars on the European continent between these creeds. Perhaps most importantly. North. European origin and of light skin color. In contrast, most Mexicans living. United States were. Spanish and Indian ancestry), and a significant. Mexico were. primarily of Indian ancestry. The sentiments of a sizable portion of. United States in the mid- 1. In the words of Mc. Williams, . Though employers in mining, agriculture, and. Anglo American laborers in the. Moreover, when. urbanization became more pronounced in the 1. Mexicans in the. Southwest began moving to the major cities, many people in these urban. Hispanics as part of the cause of higher crime. City chambers of commerce, local. Mexican migration. Bills to place a limit on. Congress in the 1. Cort. Massive unemployment in the 1. Repatriation Program. Many of the Mexicans who left. United States for over ten years and had. American- born families. Their mandated eviction was a tragic. United States when the economy. This would not be the last time this fact would be. Mexicans and Mexican Americans in such humiliating fashion. Many. injuries occurred on both sides and the riots in Los Angeles spread to. Meier and Rivera, p. They attended segregated schools, ate in segregated. Increased tourism, rather than pride in the multicultural heritage of. In. 1. 97. 0 the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights proclaimed that Mexican Americans. United States (Cort. The press coverage given to the. C. The. Teatro Campesino. Luis Valdez dramatized visually for audiences the barriers of. Mexican Americans in the land once possessed by. Upward mobility has brought a better life to a. Mexican Americans and increased acceptance by some who might. Inequalities and discrimination have not. Hispanic community. As. reasons for misunderstanding or discord diminish, both cultures will. However, the. general pattern has been that with each successive generation the use of. Mexican. Americans do not fit this pattern for a number of reasons. First of all. one must consider their historical experience, particularly their. Mexican Americans can trace their ancestry back ten generations. The. ancestors of many Mexican Americans living in rural Colorado and northern. New Mexico pre- date the Anglo American presence in that region. Many have. not acculturated; some speak English with difficulty and appear to be more. Mexican immigrant (Joan. Moore and Henry Pach. Second, Mexican immigration has been a constant pattern. As a result, each successive wave of. Mexican immigration has served to reinforce certain aspects of Mexican. Spanish language within. United States. In addition, intermarriage between immigrant males and. Mexican American women has encouraged the maintenance of Spanish. In fact, Mc. Lemore has stated that Mexican Americans. The 1. 99. 0 census. Hispanic Americans. United States, so about one out of every ten Americans is. Hispanic origin. Mexican Americans form the largest group of Hispanic. Americans, at over 1. Not all speak Spanish, but most have some. English in the larger. Spanish at home. While most are concentrated in. United States, there has been a greater integration of. Mexican Americans into the larger society, and the vast majority are. Thus, the potential for interaction with other. Mexican Americans is extremely high. Many, on a daily basis, will work, go. Mexican Americans. This continuous interaction over the years has served. Mexican and Mexican American culture. Since the. United States shares a 2,0. Mexico, Mexican Americans. Over the years, the children and. Ukraine facts, information, pictures . Comparatively, Ukraine is slightly smaller than the state of Texas with a total area of 6. Ukraine shares boundaries with Belarus on the n, Russia on the e, the Black Sea on the s, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, and Slovakia on the w, and Poland on the nw. Ukraine's location is one of strategic importance at the crossroads between Europe and Asia. Its land boundary totals 4,6. Ukraine's capital city, Kiev, is located in the north central part of the country. The topography of Ukraine consists mainly of fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus. True mountains (the Carpathians) are found only in the west and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south. The Dnieper Uplands run through a central region of the country. The Donets Hills and Azov Uplands are located along the eastern border. The coastal region of the Black Sea is a lowland area. The indent of Karkint Bay nearly separates the Crimean Peninsula from the mainland. The Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, which lies between Ukraine and Russia covering an area of 3. An area of wetlands, the Polesye Marshes, is located near the northwest border. The most important river in Ukraine is the Dnipro (Dnieper), the third longest river in Europe. It serves as a major source of hydro- electric power. Other major rivers include the Danube, Western Buh, the Tisza, the Pripyat, and the Desna. There are over 2. Dnipro. The climate is subtropical on the Crimean Peninsula. Precipitation is disproportionately distributed, highest in the west and north, least in the east and southeast. Winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland. Summers are warm across the greater part of the country, except for the south where it becomes hot. The rest of the country's climate is temperate. The mean temperature in July is about 1. In January, however, the mean temperature drops to - 6. Average rainfall is 5. The land's soil, chernozem (black soil), is very fertile. When the Ukraine was part of the former Soviet Union it was called the country's . Mixed shrubs, grasses, and evergreens can be found along the Mediterranean- like zone of the Crimean coast. Forest regions include such tree species as beech, linden, oak, and spruce. European bison, fox, and rabbits can be found living on the vast steppes of the country. As of 2. 00. 2, there were at least 1. Ukraine's environmental problems include the nuclear contamination which resulted from the 1. Chernobyl accident. One- tenth of Ukraine's land area was affected by the radiation. According to UN reports, approximately one million people were exposed to unsafe levels of radiation through the consumption of food. Approximately 3. 5 million hectare (8. Pollution from other sources also poses a threat to the environment. Ukraine releases polluted water, heavy metal, organic compounds, and oil- related pollutants into the Black Sea. The water supply in some areas of the country contains toxic industrial chemicals up to 1. Air pollution is also a significant environmental problem in the Ukraine. In 1. 99. 2, Ukraine had the world's seventh- highest level of industrial carbon dioxide emissions, which totaled 6. However, in 2. 00. The pollution of the nation's water has resulted in large- scale elimination of the fish population, particularly in the Sea of Azov. As of 2. 00. 3, only 3. Ukraine's total land area was protected, including 3. Wetlands of International Importance. According to a 2. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), threatened species included 1. Threatened species include the European bison, the Russian desman, and the Dalmatian pelican. The wild horse has become extinct. The population of Ukraine in 2. United Nations (UN) at 4. In 2. 00. 5, approximately 1. There were 8. 5 males for every 1. According to the UN, the annual population rate of change for 2. The projected population for the year 2. The population density was 7. Dnieper Lowlands and the Donets Basin being the most densely populated regions. The UN estimated that 6. The capital city, Kiev (Kyyiv), had a population of 2,6. Other cities and their estimated populations were Kharkiv, 1,4. Dnipropetrovs'k, 1,0. Odesa, 1,0. 10,0. Donetsk, 9. 92,0. Lvov, 8. 76,0. 00; and Zaporizhzhya, 7. Since the breakup of the former Soviet Union, tens of thousands of Ukrainians have returned to the Ukraine. Between 1. 98. 9–9. Azerbaijan, and 3. Kyrgyzstan. Between 1. Belarus; 8. 2,0. 00 returned from Kazakhstan; and 3. Tajikistan. There were still 1. Chernobyl accident. As of February 1. Tatars had returned from Central Asia, mostly from Uzbekistan. These Tatars belong to the 5. Tatars that were forcibly deported from the Crimean peninsula under the Stalin regime. The signature of an agreement between Ukraine and Uzbekistan in 1. Uzbek citizenship and acquisition of Ukrainian citizenship enabled more than 3. Crimean Tatars to obtain Ukrainian citizenship. Many of the rest of the Crimean Tatars in Central Asia wish to return to the Crimea. Due to a series of amendments to the Law of Citizenship and a naturalization campaign, all formerly deported stateless persons residing in Ukraine had acquired Ukrainian citizenship as of 1. The total number of migrants living in the Ukraine in 2. In 2. 00. 4, there were 2,4. Ukraine. In addition, in that same year there were 8. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), made up of 2,8. Abkhazia, 6,5. 00 Crimean Tartars (formerly deported persons), and 7. Also in 2. 00. 4, 5. Ukrainians were refugees in Germany, and 2. United States, and over 5,0. Ukrainians sought asylum in 1. Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The net migration rate was estimated as - 0. The government views the immigration level as too low, and the emigration level as too high. Worker remittances in 2. According to the latest census (2. Ukrainian. Russians form 1. Ukraine. Belarussians, Moldovans, Crimean Tatars, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Romanians, Poles, and Jews each account for less than 1% of the population. About 7. 00,0. 00 Rusyns (Ruthenians) live within the country, but they are not an officially recognized ethnic group. Like Russian, Ukrainian is an eastern Slavic language. It has several distinctive vowel and consonant sounds, however. It is written in the Cyrillic alphabet but has three extra letters. Ukrainian began to emerge as a separate language from Russian in the late 1. Ukrainian is the official language and is spoken by about 6. Russian is spoken by about 2. Other languages include Romanian, Polish, and Hungarian. Ukraine was Christianized by St. Volodymyr in 9. 88. Under Soviet rule, churches and religion were subject to suppression and political manipulation, a situation that ended with the declaration of independence in 1. Based on a 2. 00. Christians, primarily from one of three denominations: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church—Moscow Patriarchate (1. Ukrainian Orthodox Church—Kiev Patriarchate (1. Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1%). About 6. 4% of the religiously active population are members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, also known as the Uniate, Byzantine, or Eastern Rite church. Roman Catholics claim about 2% of the population and are largely concentrated in the formerly Austro- Hungarian and Polish western territories. Other Christian groups represented include Baptists, Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, Calvinists, Pentecostals and Evangelicals. The head of the Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims of Ukraine estimates that there are as many as two million members of the nation's Muslim community. Islam is practiced mainly by the Tatar population of the autonomous republic of the Crimea. There are an estimated 3. Jews in the country. Small communities of Buddhists, Baha'is, and Hare Krishnas are also present. The constitution provides for freedom of religion and this right is generally respected. However, some smaller and nontraditional religious groups have reported problems in meeting government. An All- Ukrainian Council, composed of members from various religions, meets regularly with the State Committee of Religious Affairs to discuss potential problems between religions. As of 2. 00. 4, there were 2. Ukraine, all of it 1. Highways in 2. 00. In 2. 00. 3, there were 5,6. The main marine ports are Berdyans'k, Illichivs'k, Kerch, Kherson, Mariupol', Mykolayiv, Odesa, and Sevastopol'. The merchant marine fleet had 2. GRT or over, for a total capacity of 6. GRT in 2. 00. 5. There are 1,6. The Dnipro River is the primary inland waterway, but the Danube, western Pivd Buh, Pryp'yat', and Desna are also used for import- export traffic. Ukraine had an estimated 6. As of 2. 00. 5 a total of 1. The largest airports are in Kiev, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Odesa, and Simferopol'. In 2. 00. 3, 1. 4. Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarussians belong to the eastern branch of the Slavic peoples, all of which trace their origins to medieval Kievan Rus. Kievan Rus was established in the 9th century ad. Volodymyr the Great, one of the most celebrated rulers of Kievan Rus, adopted Christianity as the national faith in 9. Internal strife in the 1. Mongol invasion in the 1. Kievan Rus as a major power. Halych- Volhynia in Western Ukraine, however, became the new political center until it fell to Polish- Lithuanian rule in the 1. During the following centuries Ukraine found itself the object of power struggles among its more powerful neighbors. In a protracted struggle against Poland, Ukrainian Cossacks were able to establish an independent state in the 1. To safeguard Ukrainian independence from the Poles, Ukraine concluded the Treaty of Pereyaslav in 1. Moscow. The nature of this agreement has generated much historical controversy: Russian historians claim that, as part of the agreement, Ukraine accepted Moscow's rule, while Ukrainians claim that Ukraine was to retain its autonomy. The ensuing war between Russia and Poland resulted in the partition of Ukraine.
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