Answer:
The Mexican Americans gathered together to create social and cultural centres in cities to resist discrimination.
Step-by-step explanation:
Mexican in the Southwest allowed to become American citizens at the end of the Mexican-American War, but their situation remains second-class. Mexican Americans quickly lost their land to white settlers despite signing the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexican American worked as vaqueros, peons, and on the cattle ranches that white Americans owned.