What reasons were Mexican-Americans lynched for, following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?2. Why is it problematic to lynch people for the reasons listed the answers from Question1?3. Why might Latino women have been lynched?4. How is new information about this topic being made available to American contemporary audiences?

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1) One of the major reasons that lead to the lynching of Mexican-Americans was "MURDER CASE COMMITTED AGAINST A WHITE AMERICAN CITIZEN". The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was a signed agreement between the United States of America and Mexico after the Mexico-American war. Because the U.S won the war which gave them 55percent of Mexican territory, including California and Texas. They began to descriminate Mexican found in those region, even though their have the right as a citizen. The Mexicans now became angry that they murder any white American person that descriminates or oppress them.

2) The problems involved in the decision of the mobs that lynch those Latinos that commit murder, was that their didn't take them through a proper trial in a law suit before lynching them. Because the mobs does not have the right to pass judgement on a murder case.

3) The Latino woman, who was lynched during that era became very notorious, as she was the only woman who was lynched by the mob, during the California gold rush. Mrs Josefa Segovia was accused of murdering a white man, and was lynched by the vigilante mob, without trial, at a mining town in North California.

4) New information about this topic can actually lead to another discrimination between the Latino and the white Americans, because the white Americans may begin to see the Latinos as murderers, who hunt for white Americans to kill. While the Latinos may begin to see the white Americans as people without human conscience, due to the way their treated the Latinos during those era.

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