Sentences with 'mestizo'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mestizo and other words derived from it.
• « His son, MartÃn, may have been the first mestizo (person of mixed Native American and European descent). »
• « As extensive as the Mexican Cession was, some argued that the United States should not be satisfied until it had taken all of Mexico. Many of those who opposed this idea were Southerners who, while desiring the annexation of more slave territory, did not want Mexico's large mestizo population (people of Indian and European descent) to become part of the United States. Others did not want to absorb a large group of Roman Catholics. »
• « These expansionists could not accept the idea of a new American territory filled with mestizo and Catholic populations. »