Title: Mexicanos - WestWard Expansion
Headings: WestWard Expansion
The mexicanos
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who are they?
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why were they important?

Content: In the process of them being in the U.S., they had found and shown the people of the U.S. many things. The Mexicanos showed the Americans "to the batea, or gold pan." They also introduced the Americans "the riffle box to the goldfields." Later on, one of their many accomplishments was that the "Mexicanos discovered copper in the Southwest in the early 1800s." The "Mexicanos also invented the western, or cowboy, saddle, with its useful horn." When the Mexicanos came into the Unites States, they had brought new and different techniques that help the Americans. For example, " Mexicano settlers in the Southwest brought with them irrigation techniques that had been developed centuries earlier in Spain and North Africa." " To keep from wasting this precious water, Mexicanos carefully leveled their fields." This method help conserve water by using a decent amount of water that soaked and flow through each area without wasting any of it. " This method of irrigation was known as the Mexican system." "