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4 days ago · The new immigrants’ ethnic, cultural, and religious differences from both earlier immigrants and the native-born population led to widespread assertions that they were unfit for either labor or American citizenship. A growing chorus of voices sought legislative restrictions on immigration.
3 days ago · One hundred years ago this week, the U.S. enacted a sweeping immigration law that changed the course of history. The 1924 Immigration Act created a system of quotas for immigrants based on...
5 days ago · The Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduced immigration from eastern and southern Europe and practically barred it from Asia. One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress enacted the most notorious immigration legislation in American history.
2 days ago · Provides primary source documents focused on immigration and multiculturalism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
- Jennifer Dorner
- 2014
10 hours ago · According to Kelly Lytle Hernandez, deportation (what she calls immigration control) is both unconstitutional and racist: "immigration control is one of the least constitutional and most racist ...
10 hours ago · t. e. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and from there to Canada. [1] The network, primarily the work of free African Americans (and some whites as well), [2 ...
3 days ago · Early Twentieth Century Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Creating an Empire: U.S. Expansion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Why They Fought: Ordinary Soldiers in the Civil War; Two Wings of the Same Bird: Cuban Immigration and Puerto Rican Migration to the United States; Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl; Military History and the LGBTQ+ ...
