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1 online resource (213 p.) |
| Series |
Seminar Studies |
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Seminar studies in history.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Who's who -- Glossary -- Part 1 Analysis and assessment -- 1 Migration to the British colonies -- The English arrive in Tsenacommacah-the Chesapeake -- New England-a Puritan "city on a hill" -- The Lowcountry-a colony of a colony -- The middle colonies-diverse European migration -- Eighteenth-century migration -- Conclusion -- 2 Immigration during the early national and antebellum eras |
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Impact of the Revolution -- Immigration during the early national period -- Mass migration from Europe-the Germans and the Irish -- The border crossed us: the first Mexican Americans -- Gold mountain guests: the first Chinese Americans -- Know Nothings and nativism -- Immigration and whiteness -- 3 Immigration during the late nineteenth century -- A new vision of American citizenship -- Immigration during the late nineteenth century -- Italians -- Greeks -- Poles -- Eastern European Jews -- Scandinavians -- Japanese immigration -- Mexican immigration -- Urbanization during the Gilded Age |
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Large-scale industrialization -- Industrial-scale resource extraction in the American West -- The Homestead Act and Western agriculture -- Conclusion -- 4 The road to restriction -- The Chinese Exclusion Act -- Segregation and the rise of Jim Crow -- Pseudoscientific ideas about race and nativism -- Disability and nativism -- World War I -- Crafting the National Origins Act -- Conclusion -- 5 Immigration under the National Origins Act -- Reduced immigration under the National Origins Act -- Continued immigration during the 1920s -- Mexicans -- Filipinos -- Puerto Ricans -- Indian Sikhs |
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The Great Depression -- World War II -- Refugees during World War II -- Braceros -- Zoot Suit Riots -- Japanese internment -- Long-term changes to immigration -- Conclusion -- 6 Immigration during the late twentieth century -- Immigration reform for the Cold War -- Immigration during the Cold War -- Immigration and the civil rights movement -- The Immigration Act of 1965 -- Immigration from Asia -- Southeast Asia -- The Philippines -- Korea -- South Asia -- China -- Immigration from the Middle East -- Immigration from Africa -- Immigration from the western hemisphere -- Mexico -- Central America |
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The Caribbean -- War and genocide -- Conclusion -- 7 Immigration at the dawn of the twenty-first century -- Concern about unauthorized immigration -- The War on Terror and Islamophobia -- Conclusion -- Part 2 Documents -- Document 1 -- Document 2 -- Excerpt from Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss, The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch. -- Document 3 -- Excerpt from Alexander Thomson, News from America, 1774. -- Document 4 -- Naturalization Law of 1790 -- Document 5 -- Letter from Hannah Curtis to John Curtis, April 21, 1847. -- Document 6 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Excerpt from The 1842 Diary of Julia Turnau: Sailing from Bremen to New Orleans |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- United States -- History
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Emigration and immigration.
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Immigrants.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Sources
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Sources.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
100037078X |
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9781000370782 |
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