Prejudice and discrimination towards Mexican Americans in the west led to the educational backwardness of Mexican Americans.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Mexican Americans came to America as immigrant laborers being forced to suffer the hardships of poverty in their homeland. Economic crisis within the US triggered the development of hostility towards immigrant laborers. Mexican Americans were not considered white or black by the US people.
The Mexican Americans themselves didn’t consider them to be white or black and found it difficult to answer questions about race. Being a stigmatized community that faced discrimination for several years Mexican Americans became educationally backward when compared with the non-Hispanic people.
While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton. In fact, the opposite occurred. Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor.
The Sherman Act also outlawed contracts, conspiracies, and other business practices that restrained trade and created monopolies within industries. For example, the Sherman Act says that competing individuals or businesses can't fix prices, divide markets, or attempt to rig bids
