Cart War
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Military History, Economics
- Subcategories: Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Latinos, Hispanics, Chicanos
- Curriculum: American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American Indian History, Latino History
- Geographical Location: Texas
- Date: August-December, 1857
Article abstract: A series of armed raids against Tejano cartmen ends a profitable business enterprise and secures Anglo economic ascendancy in Texas.
Summary of Event
The 1857 Cart War, in which Mexican American cart teamsters in Texas were attacked by masked raiders seeking to destroy their trade, is rooted in the historic tensions between peoples of different ethnicities who resided in Texas. Soon after Euro-Americans began arriving in Spanish (later Mexican) Texas at the beginning of the nineteenth century, racial conflicts intermittently flared into...
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