POLI 172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: United States Census Bureau, Family Reunification, Cockstock Incident
31 Jan 2016
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North america: early cultural diversity, first immigrants (indians/native americans) went on to found many civilizations, us census bureau recognizes 564 tribes, umbrella term european for other immigrants deceptive. These settlers came from countries that differed in many ways (language, religion, politics), but also often had been at war with each other. Earliest europeans of the southeastern and southwestern territories were likely to be. Roman catholics from france and spain (northeast: much of what is now arizona, new mexico, california, and texas was populated by mexican catholics of mixed spanish and indian descent (southwest, germany provided more immigrants than england. Immigrants would often self-segregate into territories (asians-the west: helped produce distinctive and state cultures. Africans: united by non-citizenship/slavery even though from diverse backgrounds. Immigration policy: moved from state to federal government, congress began restricting immigration in 1798. Immigration broadened in the 19th century: eastern europe, china, and japan, ireland and germany, 1907 restriction of japanese entry to hawaii.
