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People v. de la Guerra, 40 Cal. 311 (1870), was a landmark case in the California Supreme Court that upheld the right of Mexicans in California to run for public office on the grounds that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted United States citizenship to all Mexicans residing in California should they want it.
English: This is the official list of questions (and expected answers) that can be asked on the civics portion of the American naturalization test, revised in January of 2019. While most of these questions are supplied with answers, the ones that ask about specific members of the American government are not.
In the United States, the 1.36 million km 2 (530,000 sq mi) of the area between the Adams-Onís and Guadalupe Hidalgo boundaries outside the 1,007,935 km 2 (389,166 sq mi) claimed by the Republic of Texas is known as the Mexican Cession. That is to say, the Mexican Cession is construed not to include any territory east of the Rio Grande, while ...
Well, here's the secret: to become a US citizen, you actually have to pass a civics test. The real test has 100 questions, but we’ve picked 30 to see how you’d do. This quiz is your chance to ...
The American Civics Test (also known as the American Citizenship Test, U.S. Civics Test, U.S Citizenship Test, and U.S. Naturalization Test) is an oral examination that is administered to immigrants who are applying for U.S. citizenship. The test is designed to assess the applicants' knowledge of U.S. history and government.
The United States paid $15 million ($482 million in 2016 dollars) for the damage caused by the war in Mexico's territory and agreed to assume $3.25 million in debts to US citizens. [ 2 ] The Mexican Cession as ordinarily understood (i.e. excluding lands claimed by Texas) amounted to 525,000 square miles (1,400,000 km 2 ), or 14.9% of the total ...
Lucero v. United States was a Supreme Court of the United States decision that ruled the Pueblo Tribe of New Mexico wasn't legally protected under the Nonintercourse Acts. The Nonintercourse Act established federally recognized Indian reservations in the United States. Under one of those acts, Native American reservation land couldn't be sold ...
Article XI of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo contained a guarantee that the United States would protect Mexicans by preventing cross-border raids by local Comanche and Apache tribes. At the time the treaty was ratified, Secretary of State James Buchanan had believed that the United States had both the commitment and resources to enforce this ...