They often immigrate due to economic or political difficulties.
What are refugees?
100
literally overnight with the signing of the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty in 1848, these people living north of the Rio Grande River had to either move within the new border of their home country or become a US citizen.
Who are Mexicans?
100
The often miss one of more years of this due to moving, navigating the legal system and looking for housing.
What is education?
100
This 1982 Supreme Court decision ruled that undocumented children cannot be denied access to education solely on the basis of their immigration status.
What is Plyler v. Doe?
100
A new culture, a new language, and a new identity on groups of people, who were often already had these well established.
What are the results of imposition?
200
This formula represents this idea of immigration: A+B+C=D
What is the Melting Pot?
200
The earliest immigrants to the US came predominantly from countries from this region. The goal of this mass immigration was to establish a dominant set of cultural beliefs and values.
What is Northern and Western Europe?
200
While they learn English they often lost this - something they had when they arrived in the new country.
What is their first language.
200
Following WW2, this law allowed for 100,000, then 400,000 people displaced by the war to immigrate to the USA.
What is the Displaced Persons Act of 1948?
200
They had a population of 100,000 in 1836, before the imposition of the United States government, ultimately resulting in their population dropping to about 1500 by 1894.
Who are the Blackfeet tribe?
300
The first decade and the last decade of the 20th century were the peak periods.
What is immigration to the US?
300
They successfully immigrated heavily to Hawaii and California, but later experienced significant restrictions of their rights.
Who are the Japanese?
300
They often gave this up because the people in their new country could not pronounce it.
What is their first name?
300
This 1924 law, based on the intelligence tests that show that Western and Northern Europeans were superior to others, restricted immigration of ethnic groups to the percentage of of their group already living in the US in 1890.
What is National Origins Act? Or the Johnson-Reed Act
300
They lived as free and productive people in what is now California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Colorado.
Who are the Mexicans?
400
When immigrants join networks of families or occupations already in the US.
What is the kin selective pattern and the enclave pattern of immigration?
400
They were viewed as inferior to the dominant group who had immigrated to the US earlier, and were referred to as good for nothing mongrels.
Who are people from Central America and Southeast Europe?
400
The children of immigrants often felt and experienced this at a much great degree than their parents did.
What is discrimination?
400
Congress created this organization in 1924 to monitor movement across the US and Mexican border.
What is the Border Patrol?
400
The imposition of a complete culture and legal system on another country or continent.
What is colonization?
500
Not specifically discussed in the text, this group of people is involved in a current major immigration, with nearly 4 million people seeking refuge in Europe.
Who are the Syrians?
500
They were here first.
Who are Native Americans?
500
when children neither correspond to levels of parental acculturation, nor conform to parent guidance, leading to role reversal and parent-child conflicts.
What is generational dissonance?
500
In 1882, this was the first act was the first to deny immigration rights to a specific race, targeting a group who came to work in mines and in the construction of the railroads.
What is The California Alien Land Bill?
500
This imposition denied them not only their freedom, but even their personhood.