The level of the minimum wage, approximately $4.25, about six times higher than that in Mexico lured most of the laborers from their native lands (Portes and Rumbaut 20)
The Mayans had advanced hieroglyph as well as architecture and art that was seen through their stone carvings and conscriptions on buildings and their monuments. They are also the civilization that is known to have made paper from tree barks and wrote on them (Canadian Museum of History, 2015)
The land that was annexed from Mexico later on became what is now the Nevada state, California and Utah. It also constituted parts of what is now Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado (Annenberg Foundation, 2014)
The "sociedad de castas" was a system introduced by the Spanish colonialists that was meant to systematize a hierarchy system that operated on the levels of social-racial classes. It literally meant "society of castes or breeds" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2015)
The children who were mixed race had no place in the Spanish families hence were left with the native mothers and seen as a caste below the Spanish fathers and yet slightly higher than the mothers. The caste system had been born and developed later over years to be complex and extensive as it is known in the current times (Goughran D., 2012)
To this effect, there are various theories perpetrated in attempts to explain what truly happened to the Mayan civilization. These include; drought and climate changes which led to demise of Mayan culture, the warfare from the neighboring cities that caused the Mayans to be become extinct, the ecological collapse theory and many others (Hill, 2012)
It is this caste or race that dominated the economies of the Latin America and ran the significant businesses and owned large farms. These caste system were more clearly seen in the famous painting called 'Las Castas' which outlined in paint form the 16 different castes that existed in the Spanish/Portuguese caste system within the Spanish American colonies (The Martin Luther King Task Force Inc., 2012)
The black population and the indigenous population were predominantly used to provide labor for the farms of the colonialists. In between these two classes, the intermarriages between the Spanish and Portuguese and other races like blacks and Indios gave rice to other races that were stratified either closer to the Europeans or the blacks depending on the two involved in the marriage (Wade P., 2008: Pp179)