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Race and Ethnicity Final
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Undergraduate 1
12/08/2009

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Ethnicity
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based on national orgin of culture
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Culture
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language, religon, customs, etc
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immigration
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moving of people from one country to another
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What is a time frame of a wave of immigration from the English and Spanish
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before 1830's
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1st wave of immigration?
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1830-1870 Irish German Chinese
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2nd wav of immigration
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1870-1920 Southern and Eastern Europeans
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Last wave of immigration
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post WW2 Asians, mexicans,Central and South Americans
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Chinese Laborers
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bracerers
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Columbian exchange
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plants animals disease
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Spanish Push factors
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reconquista
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spanish pull factors
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gold, land, conquest, souls
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black belt
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the belt of blacks moving through the south
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black seminoles
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runaway slaves that joined seminoles
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What killed the Indians?
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extermination of buffalo
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What are some Irish sterotypes?
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drinking, fighting, superstious
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What was Englands first colony?
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Ireland
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moravians
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purchased slaves and freed them but had to convert them to their religon
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Hessians
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British hired mercenaries fighting in the American Rev
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List some German characteristics
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Christmas tradition, tree, santa clause, gymnasiums, hot dogs and apple pies
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Danish are...
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Mormons
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Name a famous Chinese writer
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Iris Chang
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Im Pei
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chinese born American architect , won pultzer prize
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Yo Yo ma
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violinist and composer
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Amy tan
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writer
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Bruce Lee
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martial artist
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China fact
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first non atlantic group to go to US came across the pacific
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Chinese push factors
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Opium wars, Taiping Rebellion ( 20-30 million dead), wanted christian way of life
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People vs Hall
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appealed murder case in 1850's which ruled that chinese americans/immigrants had no right to testify against white citizens
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Burlingame treaty
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established friendly relations between US and China granting China most favored nation status encouraging immigration
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Chinese Six companies
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A chinese social group…Among their early efforts, they attempted to deter prostitution in the Chinese community, to encourage Chinese immigrants to lead moral lives, and to discourage what they described as excessive continuing Chinese immigration creating hostility toward Chinese already in America
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years.
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Geary Act
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more harsh than chinese exclusion act- made chinese carry permits and resident papers and passports or they would be deported or put to a year of hard labor
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Us vs wong kim ark
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Said that since he was born in the US…he is in fact a us citizen and can return into the US
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Where were chinese held during the chinese exclusion act and checked for disease?
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Angel Island
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immigration act of 1912
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kept out any undesired race… Eastern europeans, jews, catholics, chinese,
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Yellow Peril
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the belief that the mass immigration of Asians threatened white wages and standards of living. Yellow- meaning their skin color
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Magnuson Act of 1943
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It allowed Chinese immigration for the first time since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and permitted Chinese nationals already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens. This marked the first time since the Naturalization Act of 1790 that any Asians were permitted to be naturalized.
But still during WWII only 100 chinese people were allowed in a year
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War Brides Act
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was enacted in 1945 to allow spouses and adopted children of US military personnel to enter the U.S. after World War II.[1] The law temporarily lifted the ban on Asian immigration that had been established by the Immigration Act of 1924.
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Immigration and Nationallity act of 1965
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An annual limitation of 170,000 visas was established for immigrants from Eastern Hemisphere countries with no more than 20,000 per country. By 1968, the annual limitation from the Western Hemisphere was set at 120,000 immigrants, with visas available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992
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which granted permanent residency to all Chinese nationals who arrived in the United States on or before April 11, 1990.[1] It made permanent a temporary ban on deportation of Chinese nationals
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Tiananmen Square
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center of Beijing
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"Model Minority"
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work ethic , family values, emphasis on education ( chinese)
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Homestead Act
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was a United States Federal law that gave an applicant freehold title up to 160 acres of undeveloped land outside of the original 13 colonies
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Freedmens Bureau
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Relief ( food, medical care, homes employment)
Gave education, gave some land, lasted one year
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Civil Rights act of 1875
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Cannot deny Africans the right to eat or ride trains ect….where they want to
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Compromise of 1877
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on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops that were propping up Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. He won the presidency that year
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1924 Immigration act
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was a United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, according to the Census of 1890
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italian push factors
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natural disaters, crop failure, earthquakes,
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Picture brides
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Pictures sent to male, male picks one, they would legally marry and woman would come over, generally educated women, parent chose husband and wife
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Califronia Alien land law
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Made it illegal for asians to won land in cali
Immigration act of 1924- applied the same way to jap as did chinese cut jap immigration almost completely
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1930's for the Japs
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Jap govt turned military
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Executive Order 1966
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Removed Japanese from west coast into relocation centers ( concentration camps) away from coast so they couldn’t aid an invading force, protecting american interest
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Kibei
Definition
group of those jap who were born in US and went back to jap to go get education then return, America focused on this group
Forced to sell business and go to camps
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Gentlmens Agreement
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the U.S. would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration or students, and Japan would not allow further emigration to the U.S. The goal was to reduce tensions between the two powerful Pacific nations.
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