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- 211: The Colonial Economy
- ... women objected to working to support other women's children. Because the opportunity to own land was a way to attract immigrants, who were hard to attract, the abandonment of communal economic systems probably increased immigration. Except for the upper classes, life in the seventeenth century (1600s) was meager and poor, largely because the level of development of material life was low. The great majority of people were farmers. Their diet ...
- 212: The Birth of a Nation: The Pros and Cons
- ... movie banned. On the 30th of March, the NAACP went to see the Mayor Mitchel, protesting against certain parts of the film. Speaches were made by many Negroes, along with Rabbi Stephen, the Commissioner of Immigration, Fredrick Rowe, and Oswald during a hearing in the Board of Estimate Chambers (The New York Times, March 31, 1915 Pg 9.). The result was that the producer agreed to censor the parts that were ...
- 213: Swahili
- ... perhaps by Cushitic-speakers, perhaps even by people of Indonesian ancestry(who had settled in Madagascar as early as the first millennium A.D. and conceivably could have settled further north as well). Initially Arab immigration was scarce, settlement was sparse and it was limited to the islands. But it did occur, marriage with the women of the coast took place and the first seeds for the eventual emergence of a ...
- 214: The Trail of Tears
- ... from the east. This would bring on a great supporter of the Cherokee people, a white man by the name of John Ross. John Ross campaigned heavily for the Cherokees. Ross was part of the immigration management committee. Ross persuaded General Scott to approve a budget for the captive Indians of seventeen cents per Indian per day. This was double the amount figured by congress. This money was for daily rations ...
- 215: The Great Depression
- ... support themselves and their families. To cut down the number of people seeking jobs or needing help, the government decided to try to come up with some sort of relief. Among other things, they limited immigration, returned hundreds of Mexicans living here, and sought other methods to help the farmers. Hoover's Federal Farm Board urged farmers to plant less so that prices would go up but there was no encouragement ...
- 216: Human Resource Management In E
- ... is that the local workforce remains unemployed and untrained. And while the business community worries about whether mobility is possible across borders, it cannot even be achieved internally. Meanwhile, EU member states fear a mass immigration of Central Europeans seeking work. That there are also major benefits to be achieved for western companies as well as for the Eastern European countries themselves. This is a conclusion from an ERT report executed ...
- 217: Beer
- ... prevent microbial contamination (5). The process, called pasteurization, was discovered by Louis because he was trying to preserve beer- not, as most believe, milk. The lager-brewing breakthrough, coupled with a new wave of German immigration, produced a golden age of brewing in America. Between 1870 and 1919 American brewers rivaled their European counterparts in both quality and quantity of beer products. By 1890 there were seventy-four breweries clustered in ...
- 218: Koreans: When and Why Did They Come?
- ... In 1907 the US government refused to recognize the Korean passport. From that point on, any Korean entering the US had to have a Japanese passport. (Bandon 18) These developments effectively ended almost all Korean immigration to Hawaii and the US for forty years. Many of the Koreans came because of the sugar industry in Hawaii. It was booming and plantations needed more workers than the native population could supply. (Moynihan ...
- 219: The Hong Kong Chinese Community
- ... into politics. Following the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the federal government imposed a heavy head tax on new Chinese immigrants. Only from the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Trudeau government liberalization of immigration that Chinese people came to Canada from Hong Kong. In 1979 , he organized a demonstration to urge the federal government to admit more "boat people" - community members were appalled. "Don't rock the boat" was ...
- 220: The Alien And Sedition Acts
- ... wild attacks of the ensuing debate also ignited the second issue, public defamation, which led to the Sedition Act. In a letter to his Vice-President, John Adams, President Washington spoke of the problem that immigration produced. He wrote that incoming immigrants would have an unwelcome effect on the nation, as they would "retain the language, habits and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them." This same problem was ...
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