Classification Of Hispanic Americans In The United States

Hispanic Americans are an American (group of people related by culture, race, religion, etc.) who start either from Latin America or Spain. There are more than 50 million Hispanic Americans in the United States, making up over 16 percent of the total American population. The group is composed of people starting from the following countries: Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic; Central American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama; and Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Uruguay, Venezuela and Peru in South America. Hispanic Americans are scattered all over the United States but are usually mainly located in the Southwest and Southeast. Most Hispanic Americans speak Spanish. The classification of groups of people into the Hispanic-American category is based on their common history.
Famous Spanish explorers who first first discovered/used the New World include: Juan Ponce de Leon, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Gaspar de Portola and Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. The Spanish created the first (related to Europe) settlements in America, first in St. Augustine, Florida, and then in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For hundreds of years the Hispanic communities established by the Spanish in California, New Mexico and Texas remained self-ruling until the United States won (by force) these land. Following the Mexican-American War, the Agreement (between countries) of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted (living in a country you were born in, or having the same rights in a country as someone who was born there) and (rights guaranteed by the Constitution) to the Hispanic