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- 251: Undocumented In L.a.
- ... although she is in US there is still not much difference from home. Cause in US she is undocumented and the fact that she is risking her life here cause of the gangs, the police, immigration officers. There is a great chance of her getting caught and get deported from US back to Nicaragua, and she is mostly worry about that if she is the one got deported and will leave ...
- 252: Blood And Belonging
- ... France is a representation of Europe according to the late Charles De Gaulle. France has adopted internal policies to control the growth of Islam by limiting both social expressions of that faith and by specific immigration procedures. Are not the three million plus population of Moslems in France entitled to nationalistic expression of their identity as French Muslims? Where does that leave the Bosnian Muslims, the Turks or any other non ...
- 253: My Antiona
- ... of harsh weather. Jim and his family often traveled by horse in blizzards to reach their destinations. Also, at the beginning of the expansion, there were no roads. This made travel even more difficult. Also, immigration to America was occurring rapidly and many diverse people started to form the new country. There was a lot of segregation and poverty. The immigrants were not wealthy and struggled to survive on what they ...
- 254: The California Gold Rush
- ... worse conditions in their own country. Many Latin American people were also located in California. All of the different ethnic groups accounted for only 14,000 people in California. Even before the discovery of gold, immigration was on a rise for California. The Gold Rush would help to speed up this process by and estimated 10 years. The population of California was on a slight increase prior to the gold discovery ...
- 255: Polygamy
- ... 1887 July 25, President John Taylor died in hiding in Kaysville Utah. 1887 July 30, United States Attorney General files suit and confiscates the property of the church as well as that of the Perpetual Immigration Fund Corporation. 1887 March, Edmunds-Tucker Act passed as a supplement the Edmunds Law, which became law without the signature of President Cleveland. This new law included the following provisions: A wife or wives were ...
- 256: Facism
- ... points of the Nazi party that had to be followed. These Twenty Five points of Hitler's party were enforced by these militia groups. A few of the points made by Hitler are as follows: immigration of non-Germans must be prevented, no individual shall do any work that would I any way hurt the interest of the community for the benefit of all, a creation of a national (folk) army ...
- 257: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- ... FBI Headquarters and the 54 field offices were placed on 24-hour schedules. On December 7 and 8, the FBI arrested previously identified aliens who threatened national security and turned them over to military or immigration authorities. With the end of that war (1945), and the arrival of the Atomic Age (also referred to as the "Cold War"; involving the threatening expansion of the former Soviet Union), the FBI began conducting ...
- 258: The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- ... which they came. These immigrations were largely unrestricted; the United States not yet having installed a quota system. The Chinese-Exclusion act and the subsequent "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan slowed the influx of Asian immigration after 1880, but these did not impact the numbers of immigrants as much as one would think. Americans could not flee, as there was no frontier left to speak of, and assimilation increasingly failed to ...
- 259: Teddy Bear
- ... Latin America to the United States. Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War. He was the first American to win a Nobel Prize. He reached a Gentleman's agreement on immigration with Japan. In 1907, Roosevelt decided to display American naval power. He sent 16 new battleships on a good-will tour of the world. These ships became known as the Great White Fleet because they ...
- 260: Why the North Won the Civil War
- ... infantry rifles per day, compared with their own paltry capacity of 100 (Catton, Glory Road 241). During the mid-1800s, the Industrial Revolution dug its spurs deep into the side of the Northern states. Luckily, immigration numbers were skyrocketing at this time, and the sudden profusion of factory positions that needed to be filled was not a big problem (See Appendices and Randall and Donald 1-2). The immigrants, who were ...
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