History of the United States II / Unit 2 USH2 0188 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dispossession by Law
Captions available
The idea
Hispanic landowners in the Southwest were displaced by force, and by legal processes designed to leave them penniless.
In practice
Sunday Laws forbidding traditional cultural practices, and Greaser Laws jailing unemployed Mexican Americans as vagrants.
Where people slip
The Greaser Laws, like the Black codes, used vagrancy to control a population. Treaty citizenship gave little protection in court.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for History of the United States II