Mexican Immigration History Flashcards

12270303131	present-day	current	0
12270305091	founded	established; brought into being	1
12270307923	budding	growing	2
12270310356	Superpower	an extremely powerful nation	3
12270314628	vast	Enormous, Immense	4
12270317648	exchange	the trade of things of value between the buyer and the seller so that each is better off as a result	5
12270319400	mere	nothing more than; only	6
12270322212	expanded	made larger	7
12270323393	immigrate	to move permanently to a new country	8
12270325871	ballads	songs that tell stories	9
12270331866	hostile	(adj.) unfriendly; unfavorable; warlike, aggressive	10
12270335084	Legends	traditional stories based on real-life events	11
12270337832	Census	population count	12
12270339994	openness	willingness to try new things and be open to new experiences	13
12270342117	legal channels	the correct way to do something	14
12270343999	tended	took care of	15
12270345504	margins	the ends of the land	16
12270347510	society	A community of people who share a common culture	17
12270350477	surge	rise	18
12270352713	stereotypes	widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group	19
12270354672	Braceros	Mexican workers that were brought to America to work when so many men and women were gone from home during World War II that there weren't enough workers.	20
12270358491	prominent	important; famous	21
12270361113	postwar	after the war	22
12270362407	widespread	happening in many places or to many people	23
12270364731	publicity	information intended to attract public interest	24
12270367102	descendants	people who come from a particular ancestor or group of ancestors	25