These are the Baby Boomers. They are called this due to the explosion of baby births that occurred after World War 2. Some historians believe this was a push to get back to "normal life" after the aftermath of such a deadly war.
Before fighting in the Mexican-American war, Franklin joined the temperance movement and became an attorney.
In the Spanish colonies in America the colonists created a kind of caste system based on ethnic hierarchy which of course put the Spaniards on top. The rest of ethnic groups ranked based on their resemblance of the Spaniards so for example the Indians would be ranked higher than Blacks as they more resembled the Spaniards.
