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- 301: East-timor-conflict
- ... November 1992 the long-standing leader of the East Timorese resistance movement Xanana Gusmão restrain the Indonesian military. He had to serve a 20 years long imprisonment. The East Timorese population is confront with the immigration of people of nearby islands, which supports the Indonesian government within the scope of the national resettlement program (transmigrasi). These settlers control increasingly the economical life of East Timor. The natives, who were dispossessed after ...
- 302: History 2
- ... promoted higher learning, not just for the deeply religious but for everyone. This resulted in the birth of many universities. The Scotch-Irish had vast influence on American history, yet they had an extremely small immigration. Seven of the Scotch-Irish signed the Declaration of Independence. Eleven U.S. presidents trace their ancestry to these people. The Scotch-Irish were forced to move from two of their homes and finally settled ...
- 303: Chinese Immigrants
- ... Chinese and their competition with free white labor is one of the greatest evils...Therefore be it Resolved, that we rid this monstrous evil by urging the United States congress the necessity of... prohibiting the immigration of Chinese..." This was text from a sign advertising the Chinese Exclusion Act. People in the West were fed up with Chinese people taking their jobs. White people did not want to compete with Chinese ...
- 304: Cao Daiism
- ... religion, Cao Dai believes all to be prophesied beforehand (Canh). Right now, though, there are about 100 Cao Daiist families in the Washington, D.C. area and many more on the west coast (due to immigration). There is no statistic with regards to the Vietnamese Cao Dai population in the United States, but Canh estimates it at between 15,000 and 20,000 (Canh). An interesting parallel exists between Cao Daiism ...
- 305: Labor Unions
- ... members. By January 1919, it had 3,260,000 members. RED SCARES AND DEPRESSION As the 1920s began, organized labor seemed stronger than ever. It was successful in getting Congress to pass laws that restricted immigration to the United States. Unions believed that a scarcity of labor would keep wages high. But events that took place in Europe were already threatening labor's gains. In 1917, a communist revolution overthrew the ...
- 306: Colonial Differences
- ... of the agricultural work that the colonies farther South were getting into. They were also able to put the new, African slaves to more use. Cheap labor was better than costly labor. Even the shear immigration numbers made a difference in the development of the two regions. For example, the densely populated New England consisted mainly of families including the husbands, wives, and children, while the Middle colonies, which were nonetheless ...
- 307: Warren G. Harding
- ... vote. Republicans in Congress easily got the President's signature on their bills. They eliminated wartime controls and slashed taxes, established a Federal budget system, restored the high protective tariff, and imposed tight limitations upon immigration. By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be giving way to a new surge of prosperity, and newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise--"Less government in business and more ...
- 308: Industrial Revolution 3
- ... of living. At the same time they experienced harsh and dangerous working conditions. The workers felt powerless. In the late nineteenth century, the demand for factory labor grew and so did the industrial work force. Immigration was the source of expansion. The new immigrants were coming to America to get away from poverty and oppression in their homelands. With the coming of these new groups of immigrants came constant ethnic tensions ...
- 309: The Effects of Post-industrialism on the Political Economy of Western Europe
- ... tried instead to discourage participation in the labor market. Germany has called for a shorter work week, France has made extensive use of early retirement, and almost all European countries have cut back on legal immigration in an effort to lower unemployment figures and reduce the perceived social cost of their price control policies. The ascension of right-wing or right-center parties in many Western European countries, such as Austria ...
- 310: Industrialization 2
- ... very long hours. Some had 12 hour days for 6 days a week only earning 10 cents an hour, $5.50 a week. Children would only earn half that. This was also a time of Immigration. They came because they wanted to get away from war, famine and religious persecution. They wanted to come to America, The land of the Free, a place for equality. This was all true in America ...
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