Ebook: The Hispanic Americans (Multicultural America)

This volume presents the story of people of Spanish ancestry in America. Perhaps more than any other ethnocultural group in the United States, the Latino or Hispanic group has a complex history. Diff erent communities of Spanish settlers were incorporated into the United States during its 19th-century expansion. Under the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1821, Florida became part of the United States, where Spanish settlers had established forts, cities, and farms as early as the 16th century, well before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
Texas seceded from Mexico in 1836. When Texas was admitted as a state to the United States in 1845, the Spanish settlers there became U.S. citizens. Locally, a distinction was made between the tejanos of Hispanic ancestry, and the Texians, who had come in from the other states of the United States.