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50 Cards in this Set
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Pacifists
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-against war
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Abolitionists
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people who started a movement to end slavery
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"Dirt Farmers"
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-people who work for themselves
-cotton, food -improves the land -make land pretty and sell to WASPs, then do it again |
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Lutheran
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-major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German reformer. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Roman Catholic Church launched the Protestant Reformation
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Jewish Revolutions of 1848
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-expansion of rights of jewish people
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Conscription Laws
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-allowed drafts
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Potato Blight
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-famine in Europe, esp. Ireland
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Gottfried Duden (1829)
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-German emigration writer
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"48ers"
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favored unification of the German people, a more democratic government, and guarantees of human rights
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"German Triangle"
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The German Triangle, between the cities of Milwaukee, St. Louis and Cincinnati, was the destination of a large percentage of German immigrants
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Lower East Side, NYC
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-immigrant working-class neighborhood
-manhattan |
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Beer and Pianos
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-shows German way of life
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Social Clubs
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-enjoyed by Germans
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Parochial Schools
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-religion based
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German Newspapers
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-newspapers written in German
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Model Immigrants
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-came with money, located well
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WW1 and WW2
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A. Germany and England send propaganda to the US in hopes of gaining their allegiance
-Germans and English diss each other B. 11,000 Germans sent to Internment camps thanks to Alien Enemies Act -leads to Alien Registration Act |
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"Pumped up Patriotism"
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-Got into America and hated the Germans
-burned pianos -boycotted German beer |
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Alien Enemies Act of 1798
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-Authorized the President to apprehend and deport resident aliens if their home countries were at war with US
-Enacted on July 6, 1798, and providing no sunset clause, it remains intact today |
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Hyper-Assimilation
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-assimilate super fast
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100% Americanism
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-After World War I, deep feelings of patriotism and anti-German sentiment gave rise to the 100 Percent Americanism movement. The movement celebrated all things American while it attacked ideas (and people) it viewed as foreign and/or anti-American
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The Alien Registration Act of 1940
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-Set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the US government and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the gov.
-allowed Government to follow you -300,000 register -must carry "alien enemy registration card" |
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Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990
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-diversity visa lottery program
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Family Visa
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-if you have a member of your immediate family in the US legally, then that member can apply for his family to come in
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Job Visa
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-specific skills
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Diversity Visa
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-people from a new developing country
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Permanent (Immigrant) Visa
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-staying for a long time or forever
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Temporary (non-immigrant) Visa
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not staying
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US Citizenship and Immigration Services
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-give out the visas and tests
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K-1
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-to marry someone
-must be paid for |
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F-1
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-for students
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Residency
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-I-485
-"green card" -permanent resident |
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Citizenship
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-permanent resident for 5 years
-quick way is to marry a US citizen -most expensive -allowed to take test in any language -if taken in English, there's an additional oral test |
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26th of July Movement
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-Independence movement; 18-24 year old Cubans overthrew Batista and set their own Government
-Castro was all about Cuba for Cubans |
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Socialist/Communist Revolution
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-Rich did not like communism bc they get equalized
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"Golden Exiles"
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-No other groups were treated better
-mainly came over on yachts and jets -Fidel allowed them to leave -when these people left they took all their money with them -200,000 came -Miami, Florida -Union City, New Jersey |
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Cuban American Adjustment Act
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-Gave Cubans permanent residency
-no wait like other immigrants |
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"Refugee Status"
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-immediate privileges because they were escaping communism
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Cuban Refugee Program
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-Allowed to borrow $ from American banks
-total loans were 1.2 billion -were paid back almost immediately -good with money |
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Peruvian Embassy
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-embassy of peru in Miami, Fl
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Mariel Boatlifts
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-mass emigration of cubans (marielitos) who were promised asylum at the peruvian embassy
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Scarface
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-suggested that the emigration was mostly of undesirables
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Cuban Balseros
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-rafters
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1994 US-Cuban Immigration Agreement
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-20,000 allowed annually
-cuba promised to better protect its borders from escapers |
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"Wet Feet/Dry Feet Policy"
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-anyone who fled Cuba for US would gain residency a year later
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Little Havana/Calle Ocho
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-like a little Cuba
-Miami, Fl |
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Voting Blocks
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-large groups of people who would vote one way
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"Pennsylvania Dutch"
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-Germans and Swiss who came and settled in Penn.
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"Deutsche"
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-femanine form of german word for German
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Amish, Quaker, Mennonite, Moravians
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-went to Penn. for religious toleration
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