History Of Immigration In The United States

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Deportations

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Being forced to move back to where you came from by the U.S. Government because you're an illegal immigrant.

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Emigrate

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Emigration is the act and the phenomenon of leaving one's native country or region to settle in another.

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Nationalistic Spirit

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People feeling good that they live in the U.S. and feeling good about the country.

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Quota

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acial quotas in employment and education are numerical requirements for hiring, promoting, admitting and/or graduating members of a particular racial group while discriminating other racial groups. These quotas may be determined by governmental authority and backed by governmental sanctions.

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Amnesty

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In the United States immigration debate, allowing illegal immigrants to legally remain in the United States is often called amnesty.

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Refugees

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A refugee is a person who, "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail him/herself of the protection of that country"

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Asylum

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A person who is seeking to be recognized as a refugee is an asylum seeker. In the United States a recognized asylum seeker is known as an asylee.

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Visa

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A visa is a document issued by a country giving an individual permission to formally request entrance to the country during a given period of time and for certain purposes and usually stamped or glued inside of a passport, or sometimes issued as separate pieces of paper.

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Unskilled Labor

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These are workers who have received no special training and have few specific skills.

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Seasonal Migration

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Seasonal human migration is very common in agricultural cycles. It includes migrations such as moving sheep or cattle to higher elevations during summer to escape heat and find more forage. Human labor often moves with fruit harvest, or to other crops that require manual picking.

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Permanent Residence

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Permanent residency refers to a person's visa status: the person is allowed to reside indefinitely within a country despite not having citizenship.

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The Gentlemen's Agreement

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The Gentlemen's Agreement was one between the United States and Japan which was placed in effect in the years 1907 and 1908. Basically it represented an effort by then President Theodore Roosevelt to calm some of the growing tension between both countries surrounding the immigration of Japanese workers. A treaty that was previously signed with Japan in 1894 had assured the free immigration of the Japanese to America. This led to a growing number of Japanese workers coming into California and they were subsequently greeted with growing hostility.

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Naturalized Citizen

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In law, naturalization refers to an act whereby a person acquires a citizenship different from that person's citizenship at birth.

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Old Immigration

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The Old Immigration was the period of time in the late 19th century when the immigrants moved to the United States from Northern or Western Europe. Most of the immigrants moved from such countries as Britain, France, Germany, Ireland or Scandinavia.

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New Immigration

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Immigration to the United States of America is the movement of non-residents to the United States. Even though the foreign born have never comprised more than 16% of the U.S. population since 1675, immigration has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of American history.

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Benevolent Societies

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The Washington Benevolent Societies were grass-roots political clubs set up 1800-1816 by the Federalist Party in the U.S. to electioneer for votes. They helped pioneer electioneering techniques in a democracy. Into the Age of Jackson, an oration on Washington's birthday, February 22, was commonly delivered before the Washington Benevolent Societies in various states, and sometimes it would be printed.

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law passed on May 6, 1882, following 1880 revisions to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that lasted over 60 years.

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Nativism

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Nativism is an opposition to immigration which originated in United States politics with roots in the country's historic role as a melting pot.

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National Origins Act

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he Immigration Act of 1924, which included the National Origins Act, Asian Exclusion Act or the Johnson-Reed Act, 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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The Know Nothing Party

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The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1850s.

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NAFTA

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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) eliminated the majority of tariffs on products traded among the United States, Canada and Mexico, and gradually phases out other tariffs over a 10-year period. Restrictions were to be removed from many categories, including motor vehicles, computers, textiles, and agriculture.