... Spaniards brought many animals to the New World such as horses, cattle, sheep, goats, burros, and swine. Beef is a big part of the American diet today. The Spaniards also developed the distinctive saddle that is now identified with the West. Wiencek states, "The cattle drive was not invented ... 21) Without his efforts, America could have lost the Revolutionary War. Today his name is best known for a city in Texas called Galveston. Literature also shaped the view Americans had about the Spanish that turned good into bad. The Black Legend is a style of writing or propaganda that ... a lot...

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... their difficulties and to start a new life in when they arrived in the US; unfortunately they also found a new set of difficulties. Many genres of literature and films have immigration as their main topic. An example is in the two poems "Immigrants" one by Pat Mora and the May Flower circulation poem ... feed them mashed hot dogs an apple pie." She used these lines in her poem to express that immigrant parents fed their children American food and taught them to love the country. Even though the parents wanted there kids to be just like normal Americans, they ... in Spanish or Polish". Thi...

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