Immigration & immigrant communities (1650-2016) /

"This text explores the full history of immigration issues in America, from Adriaen van de Donck's description of the New Netherlands in 1650; to the 2012 opinions of Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia on the case of Arizona v. United States concerning states' r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Salem Press
Otros Autores: Pula, James S., 1946- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ipswich, Massachusetts : [Amenia, New York] : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Schlager Group, Inc. and Grey House Publishing, Inc., [2017]
Colección:Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)
Temas:
Immigrants > United States > History > Sources.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrants.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Sources.
United States > Ethnic relations > History > Sources.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques > Histoire > Sources.
United States.
History.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In their own words: immigrant descriptions. A description of New-Netherland
  • A voyage to America
  • A Chinese letter to governor John Bigler
  • Kleindeutschland in the 1850s
  • Letter from an Irish immigrant
  • How the Other Half Lives
  • A Polish American protest of immigration restriction
  • How I found America
  • Bartolomeo Vanzetti's final courtroom statement
  • An address by César Chávez
  • Anti-immigrant rhetoric. Platform of the American Party
  • Dillingham commission report
  • "Shut the door"
  • Speech on Mexican immigration
  • Federal legislation. Naturalization Act of 1790
  • Homestead Act
  • Fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • National Quarantine Act
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Immigration Act of 1891
  • Immigration Act of 1917
  • Immigration Act of 1924
  • McCarran-Walter Act
  • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
  • Executive and judicial actions. Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan
  • Woodrow Wilson's third annual message to Congress
  • Executive order 9066
  • Presidential veto of the McCarran-Walter Bill
  • Plyler v. Doe
  • Arizona v. the United States
  • State of Texas v. United States
  • Appendixes. Chronological list
  • Web resources
  • Bibliography.

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