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- 1601: Immigration
- ... in and become a citizen. One must go through several examinations and tests before he or she can earn their citizenship. The Immigration Act of March 3, 1891 was the first comprehensive law for national control of immigration. It established the Bureau of Immigration under the Treasury Department to administer all immigration laws (except the Chinese Exclusion Act). This Immigration Act also added to the inadmissible classes. The people in these ... conformity with 1967 United Nations protocol on refugees. Through this act, refugees attained permanent resident status. The wanted to lower the number of refugees admitted but that plan was a failure. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of Nov 6, 1986, was signed by President Ronald Reagan. Through this act illegal aliens who had resided in an unlawful status since January 1, 1982 could be legalized. This act also prohibited employers ... them were rehabilitated and released Few were returned to Cuba Laws Restricting Immigration America must be kept American President Coolidge signing immigration quota law in 1924 1607-1830 In the 17th and 18th centuries, the control over the admission of newcomers was mainly in the hands of the individual colonies. These were dictated by the desire to attract settlers to virgin territories or by the need to keep out unwanted ...
- 1602: Articles Of Confederation
- ... American Revolution. By its terms, Great Britain recognized the thirteen colonies as the free and independent United States of America. However, the most important power was that Congress had the right to obtain territory and control development of the western territories, which was previously controlled by their mother country, Great Britain. (Doc D) With the Articles of Confederation, the United States was able to break away from their mother country and ... their market value with the population. (Doc B) With all of the difficulty between the people and the government, it is obvious that the Articles of Confederation weakened the United States. Congress did gain some control, and did some good deeds, but their control was too limited, and they could not get along with the people. The central government could not manage the trade regulation, nor could they levy taxes on the people. With no money being brought ...
- 1603: American Revolution
- ... be benefiting from, they sought to take action, thus triggering the Seven Years (French and Indian) War. Known as the "Great War for Empire", the worlds uppermost nations became involved in a battle for control over North America. The British eventually won, gaining full control of the territories that had previously belonged to the French. Great Britain, reestablishing its status, began its conduct over the colonists. After winning the war, it felt it had the right to start controlling the ... them for so long, letting them develop their own way of life, government, economy, and trade? Great Britain had left them a long time ago, and the colonists were angered that they began to take control when they no longer needed the mother country. The British tried to show their first show of authority by establishing the Proclamation of 1763. As a result of the French and Indian war, the ...
- 1604: Alcatraz
- ... were transported onto the island in 1854. By the early 1860's, Alcatraz had 111 cannons. Some were enormous, firing a fifteen-inch ball weighing over 450 pounds. Defenses included a row of brick enclosed gun positions called case mates to protect the dock; a fortified gateway or a Sally Port to block the entrance road; and a three-story citadel on top of the island. This served both as an ... during the Civil War with the addition of prisoners from other army posts, the crew of a Confederate privateer, and civilians accused of treason. The Sally Port's basement was filled, then one of the gun rooms, and a wooden stockade was built just to the North of the Sally Port. During the next three decades additional buildings were erected just north of the Sally Port to house up to 150 ... they had nothing else to live for. I'll never forget happened there, my dreams won't let me." (4) Arriving on the second "official" shipment to Alcatraz in September of 1934 was George "Machine Gun" Kelly. Involved first in bootlegging, he was apprehended and sentenced to Leavenworth. At the conclusion of a three-year stay, Kelly emerged from prison in touch with some of America's best bank robbers, ...
- 1605: Vietnam War - The War We Should Have Won
- ... plane was capable of multiple roles, as a dogfighter, bomber, recon, and support aircraft. However, the F-4 had its share of problems. First, the engineers who designed it neglected to mount any type of gun on the F-4A through the F-4D, thinking that the Phantom's frightening compliment of missiles could take out any enemy threat. They were wrong. Not having a gun made the dogfighting role of the Phantom extremely hard, because the AIM-9 and AIM-7 missiles were not as effective at closer ranges against the enemy MiGs. Only after almost 2 years was the F-4E Phantom fitted with a 6-barrell gatling gun. 4 Also, many pilots were poorly trained, only having 6 weeks of training as opposed to the customary 1-year. These excitement-hungry flyboys, these air cowboys had a voracious appetite for combat, but ...
- 1606: Vietnam War - Summary Of Vietnam
- ... and the further spread of communism, the U.S. held on to the Truman Doctrine and stood behind the South Vietnamese leader, Diem. Kennedy and Diem were both killed in 1963 and 1964. Johnson took control of the situation by increasing the amount of money and manpower put into Vietnam. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving the president full military power. After Johnson dramatically escalated the amount of soldiers ... in 1968, when the village of My Lai was completely destroyed, although it did not contain a single enemy troop. Over a hundred villagers were slaughtered. It became clearer to Americans how soldiers were losing control, and how there was no easy way to win this war. The draft took more and more people in as the years went on, and in1968 it peaked to over 500,000 soldiers involved in ... the nation. Some key ways to get the movement attention included student activism and anti-war messages present in songs and literature. The National Guard and other patrolmen often became violent in order to gain control of situations, and several people were killed. Growing Protest of the war caused Johnson not to run for re-election in 1968, and Nixon was elected to office. Nixons policy was called "Vietnamization" ...
- 1607: The New Deal
- ... gold standard and cancelled the gold payment clause for all contracts. After this, Roosevelt reduced the gold content of the dollar to 59.06 cents. All of these measures were taken as an attempt to control inflation and to start up businesses. More difficult than either of the other problems addressed by Roosevelt was unemployment. Many Americans searched for jobs that simply did not exist. Poverty levels soared, especially in the ... and a drought that had lasted for years. The first bill passed by Congress to aid the unemployed was the Civilian Conservation Corps. About 3 million uniformed men were employed in such occupations as flood control, reforestation, swamp drainage, and fire fighting. In order to help the older of the unemployed, the Federal Emergency Relief Act was passed to form the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. This agency gave about $3 billion ... to prevent flooding in the area, create jobs in building the dams, and to provide large amounts of inexpensive hydroelectric power. Low-cost housing, lots of cheap nitrates, restoration of eroded soil, improved navigation, flood control, and reforestation were other effects of the Tennessee Valley Act. The Federal Housing Administration began to stimulate the building industry by giving homeowners small loans for improving their home or constructing new ones. The ...
- 1608: The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
- ... forces were quick to react and Castro ordered his T-33 trainer jets, two Sea Furies, and two B-26s into the air to stop the invading forces. Off the coast was the command and control ship and another vessel carrying supplies for the invading forces. The Cuban air force made quick work of the supply ships, sinking the command vessel the Marsopa and the supply ship the Houston, blasting them ... 5th battalion was lost, which was on the Houston, as well as the supplies for the landing teams and eight other smaller vessels. With some of the invading forces' ships destroyed, and no command and control ship, the logistics of the operation soon broke down as the other supply ships were kept at bay by Casto's air force. As with many failed military adventures, one of the problems with this ... the slow moving B-26s of the invading force. On Tuesday, two were shot out of the sky and by Wednesday the invaders had lost 10 of their 12 aircraft. With air power firmly in control of Castro's forces, the end was near for the invading army. Over the 72 hours the invading force of about 1500 men were pounded by the Cubans. Casto fired 122mm. Howitzers, 22mm. cannon, ...
- 1609: Slavery - Capitilism
- ... servants, but this system of work only worked for a limited time as these servants would work their time of servitude and then leave on their own. The American farmer in the south needed more control on their workers and needed to know that they ( the workers ) weren't going to just leave and start up their own farm for themselves. Thus the manipulation of slave labor became the answer for ... colonies were very good at it. Lewis C. Gray defined the southern plantation as a "capitalistic type of agricultural organization in which a considerable number of unfree laborers were employed under a unified direction and control in the production of a staple crop." The plantations were mostly one crop oriented, cotton or tobacco, and this lead to cash crops rather than supplying for the colonies themselves. The plantation gentry or Masters ... forced planters into believing that slave holding was more profitable. Therefore an increase in the amount of slaves doing work on p lantations was evident due to its profitability for planters and farmers and the control on labor. Controlling labor in the South, became an entity upon which no plantation could survive without. The Southern Master had many slaves who he expected to do enormous amounts of work all for ...
- 1610: Organized Crime
- ... biggest ethnic group, but they were not the only ones. "The Irish were instrumental in putting together the system of organized crime"(American History 260). The Irish were known as very obsessive gamblers who had control of nearly all racetracks and casinos in the early 1900s. "As sportsmen, they invested money in racehorses and promoted racetracks. Throughout this time, organized crime may have reached its high point in the United ... local police and politicians" (American History 260). The Italians, of course, already had their feet wet in America by their knowledge of the systematic ways of government for nearly 30 years in America and had control of almost every aspect of organized crime. The Italians remained with, socialized with, and committed crimes on other Italians within the Italian Community. The Italians were involved so deep in Crime that the Sicilian Mafia ... do business on his turf, which led to a very vicious death where the man was cut into tiny pieces and shoved into a box" (Family Tree). Lucky Luciano was also very influential during his control of the Irish Mafia around the 1920s in America. "After his hostile takeover, Luciano organized organized crime. He modernized the Mafia, shaping it into a smoothly run national crime syndicate focused on the ...
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