Immigration and Ethnic History

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Civil wars, USA United States of America, famine, political, economic factors, american society, acculturation, family, language, population dispersal, enslavement, family roles, immigration, communication, ethnic, industrialization

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The United States is said to be a nation of immigrants. This is because most people in trace their origins from other parts of the world. There are people who moved into the United States as slaves, specifically the African-Americans, while others migrated to the country in order to engage in trading activities or to start new lives. Immigrants from Europe worked in the industries, and others practiced agriculture in sugar and cotton plantations. However, these immigrants later returned to their original homelands due to the conditions that existed in the United States in the eighteen century. This essay will focus on the reasons that facilitated the movement of European immigrants back to their original countries.

Why did so many European immigrants return to their home country after immigrating to the United States?
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What were the changes in family roles that happened in immigrant families in the new American urban environment?
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2. Discussion
3. Conclusion
Discuss the reasons why Jews left Russia and Eastern Europe to come to the United States in the decades before World War I
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2. Discussion
3. Conclusion
Describe efforts by Blacks and other Americans to challenge both the legal and customary forms of segregation and discrimination in the United States after 1945, and the process of dismantling legal segregation and discrimination by 1967
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2. Discussion
3. Conclusion

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[...] Familial acculturation had both positive and negative effects on the immigrant Europeans in the United States of America. One of the negative effects is that the immigrants started to lose their native cultures gradually. The newly born children were Americanized and therefore they did not understand their cultures like their parents. However, settling in the United States led to integration of different cultures in which people learnt the differences and uniqueness of cultures in different parts of the world. Enslavement There were people who travelled to the United States as a result of slave trade to work in the plantations of settlers. [...]

[...] As a result, most of the residents in Europe immigrated in o the United States to escape the famine. Steamships facilitated the movement of people from Europe in to the United States. This means that steamships contributed significantly to increase in the volume of immigration in to the United States. Following the end of the potato famine, European-Americans started to travel back to their original homelands. This happened as their prospects of life started to improve in their original homelands. [...]

[...] In addition, Dr. King led a march of more than 200,000 peaceful demonstrators to Washington demanding an end to segregation and discrimination. Process of dismantling legal segregation and discrimination by 1967 The process of dismantling legal segregation and discrimination was aided by the promotion of desegregation in law schools through Supreme Court directives. At the time, various states had set up law schools for 'blacks only' and 'whites only', and students could not be admitted to schools in which their race did not belong (History Learning Site, 2011). [...]

[...] With the passing of the Act, segregation and discrimination in public facilities was prohibited, including discrimination in education and employment. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act was passed to give Blacks the right to cast their votes. This followed a match by Dr. King in Alabama protesting restrictions on voting for Blacks, which also facilitated the passing of the Fair Housing Act in 1968 to prohibit restrictions in renting and purchasing homes based on race (History Learning Site, 2011). The struggle to promote desegregation was further rewarded in 1967 when two states elected the first Black mayors, an occurrence that largely advanced the fight for prohibition of segregation. [...]

[...] In the case Brown v. Board of Education, various instances of segregation, which mainly restricted admission of Black students in Whites-only schools, were cited, and the court held that separate facilities in the education system provide unequal opportunities for students (Rountree, 2006). Although the state abolished segregation in schools, it took time for people to adapt to the changed system due to fear of discrimination, and it took the efforts of the state to literary enforce desegregation by using federal troops. [...]

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