Essays Tagged: "new immigrants"
Comparison of Political Machines and the Reform Movement
structed by ambitious and hungry for power Irish, resulted in being a means of incorporation of the new immigrants into broader community. Their existence was the result of the perception of the early ... ception of the early Irish immigrants that they can achieve social and financial recognition in the New World through political mobilization. Using financial resources to direct votes, machine bosses ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Immigration
he immigrantcommunity. Long ago, European immigrants were given a job, shelter, and food. Soon, the newimmigrants were granted citizenship and voting privileges (Hernandez A1). Today, immigrants arelu ... east likely to be givenfinancial help, and they are often charged the highest tuition fees. Under a new court ruling,undocumented Cal State students will lose access to the system's grants programs; i ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Immigration
he immigrantcommunity. Long ago, European immigrants were given a job, shelter, and food. Soon, the newimmigrants were granted citizenship and voting privileges (Hernandez A1). Today, immigrants arelu ... east likely to be givenfinancial help, and they are often charged the highest tuition fees. Under a new court ruling,undocumented Cal State students will lose access to the system's grants programs; i ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Canada's Immigration From 1852-1990
rly British ones tostart small farms.Over the next 30 years John A. MacDonald did little to attract new immigrants to Canada.In about 1879 a new immigration law was passed that was designed to keep ou ... e. The Canadian government was promoting it's self every where withit's fur and grains to encourage new comers and settlers that moved to the U.S. back to Canada.With the out break of World War I tens ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History
Who does immigration affect?
hout a high school education have seen their wages fall because of competition by the lower-skilled new immigrants. According to one of the researcher, Moore Sullivan, studies show that for each immig ... jobs with good working environments and high salaries. According to National Academy Press of 1970, new immigrants' wages were 17 percent lower than the native workers and in 1990 immigrants were paid ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
The Winnipeg general strike.
eneral Strike:A revolution is the forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system (Oxford Dictionary). Does it apply to the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919? Was what happe ... hat came back from World War I were not able to get their jobs back. The soldiers claimed that the "new immigrants" took their job, and now that they were jobless, the government should do something a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Should English Be the Language of America?
f five are fluent in English." There are 23 states that adopted English as their official language. Newt Gingrich said," without English as a common language, there is no (American} civilization. U.S. ... zation. U.S. English wants to reduce the teaching of bilingual education and replace it by teaching new immigrants instead. The real question is what the impact of the English language might be. (Huma ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
American Expansionism ----- College Paper
y. The most recent census taken at the time said that there were no more undeveloped lands on which new immigrants could settle. This began the U.S. looking toward expansion in a whole new light. New ... ould use. Surpluses existed in corn, wheat, cotton, and many manufactured goods. The country needed new markets to fill the order sheets of its progress. At much the same time the United States was gr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Age of the Bosses
diversity in the past, but the huge diversity of the American cities was unique. The only thing the new immigrants had in common with each other was the dream of becoming rich and the poverty of their ... nsion of business and population. The boom in population meant that the city had to accommodate the new people and the services they needed. Yet history repeats itself, as greed and conventional think ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Pearl Harbor and the Yellow Peril-Japanese Discrimination
ved as a "yellow peril." The term was first coined in the early 1800s by white Americans who viewed new immigrants from China and other Eastern nations as foreigners with different cultural practices ... ships and 13 other naval vessels. The U.S. authorities had broken the Japanese diplomatic code and knew an attack was imminent. A warning had been sent from Washington, but, owing to delays in transmi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
The Americanization of Anglican Colonies.
d accomplished a virtual revolution for religious toleration and separation of church and state. As new immigrants arrived from Germany, Ireland and Scotland, along with captured enslaved individuals ... so formulated ways to influence British appointees, like by threatening to withhold their salaries. New York's assembly even began to appeal to "common people", competing openly for ordinary voters. S ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Can old immigration theories be applied to new immigrants?
. These authors emphasize the duality of contemporary immigration and compare historical facts with new findings on contemporary immigrant research. Furthermore, they criticize the way scholars such a ... rs voice their opinions and point out that changes in economy and changes in changes in skills that new immigrants bring to the US affect economical assimilation for the second immigrant generation.Co ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Treatment of the African American, Native American and Immigrant Population in America in the late 1800s.
ican. Forced from their rightful lands, Native Americans were brutally marched to reservations. The new immigrants suffered a tremendous deal of persecution and a poor quality of life living in the pa ... such as cholera, malaria, tuberculosis and typhoid fever. Crime flourished in major cities, such as New York.Even after the Civil War when African Americans were granted rights, laws were still being ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
American Immigration and how it affected American Society and Developement.
ople who immigrated during the 1880's and in later time periods were known as old immigrants. These new immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe. They were Poles, Greeks, Slovaks, Croats, and ... accustomed to cringing before despotism and where opportunities for advancement were few (569). The new immigrants were also illiterate and poor. Instead of coming to America to work on a farm, many o ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Major issues for America after the civil war untill 1900
ed over the west and either settled on the east coast or in California. There was a large amount of new immigrants partaking in the westward movement; however most were native born Americans. For all ... to achieve their goals and forced the Native Americans to pay hefty prices.After the civil war many new inventions came into the business world that would change our way of life forever. The typewrite ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
Impact of Immigration on Society
ereotypical mould of an Australian. As the reality of Australia's vulnerability was understood, the new Immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, formed the opinion that Australia must "populate or perish ... perish" as there were only 2.3 people to every square kilometer of Australian soil.At his request, new immigrants from all over the world, besides Asia and Africa, were accepted warmly by the thousan ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History
Immigration
r. Immigration has become a selective process with many gray areas." Now Americans are faced with a new dilemma; the nation must decide not whether it is willing to accept new immigrants, but whether ... to restrict the amount of immigrants coming across the borders." Positively, immigrants bring many new customs, traditions, recipes, and styles to the Americas. "It is important to know that legal im ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
New Age of Migration, compare America's :"new" immigrants with turn of the century immigrants
he United States, it is important to notice the difference between the old immigrants and the new immigrants in terms of sociocultural, socioeconomic, and spatial factors. Not only are immigra ... ry immigration with that of today is that around 1900 the United States of America was a relatively new country that was still forging its identity; in 1910, 15 of every 100 Americans were foreign-bor ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Immigration
Building a New Home I have been a journalist for the New York Times for over thirty years and I have covered al ... y goes in depth about an entire culture and their long hard struggle to achieve freedom and build a new home for their entire culture. Over the past few decades it would appear that our fair city has ... e past few decades it would appear that our fair city has become home to over fifty four percent of new immigrants that have decided to try to build a new life in America. The main reason for this is ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Multiculturalism vs. Assimilation
to become a more diverse ethnic nation, we need to consider how our current culture affects us and new Canadians. While many consider the current multicultural society to be fine, there are ways tha ... based on integration, immigrants can invite others from their country of origin to live in Canada. New immigrants will contribute to Canada culturally and economically and help create a stronger nati ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology