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- 161: Willa Sibert Cather and His Works
- ... was nine, her father bought a ranch near Red Cloud, Nebraska. Willa was excited with this change, because she was free to roam outdoors. Willa would often listen to old ladies, and hear of their immigration from Bosnia and Sweden. There were no schools near the ranch, so Willa studied at home. A neighbor taught her Latin, and Willa would practice English skills by reading the classics to her grandmother. When ...
- 162: Theodore Roosdevelt
- ... moved in the direction of the reformers and ended up as the candidate of the progressive party in the Bull Moose presidential campaingn in 1912. He had broken with the Repub lican party. In 1907 immigration reached its all-time high 1,285,000 in one year. Theodore Roosevelt said, "There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't ...
- 163: Thomas Jefferson
- ... Patriots was his powerful pamphlet A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), originally written for presentation to the Virginia convention of that year. In this he emphasized natural rights, including that of immigration, and denied parliamentary authority over the colonies, recognizing no tie with the mother country except the king. When he was a member of the Continental Congress (1775-1776), Jefferson was chosen together with John Adams ...
- 164: Theodore Roosdevelt: 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)
- ... moved in the direction of the reformers and ended up as the candidate of the progressive party in the Bull Moose presidential campaingn in 1912. He had broken with the Repub lican party. In 1907 immigration reached its all-time high 1,285,000 in one year. Theodore Roosevelt said, "There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't ...
- 165: Did The Western World Do Enoug
- ... to remain neutral, the countries of the Western World were finally forced to take a stand on the issue of emigration of Jews from the Reich who were seeking refuge. The United States maintained strict immigration quotas which severely limited the number of Central and Eastern Europeans admitted to the country each year. Even under such extreme circumstances, the US insisted on adhering to these policies and refused to modify them ...
- 166: October Crisis/War Measures Act
- ... was necessary to fulfill their mission. Five days after the kidnapping, on October 10 1970, a second cell of the F.L.Q. kidnapped Pierre Laporte, the forty-nine-year-old Minister of Labour and Immigration in the Quebec Cabinet, and a contender for the leadership party the previous spring. (Des, 186) Their demands also included the release of, political prisoners and an aircraft to take the kidnappers to Algeria or ...
- 167: The Horror of The Black Plague In Europe in 1347
- ... Black Plague provided a major theme of depopulation for the Middle Ages, and it was a major turning event in the history and development of Europe. Urban populations quickly recovered within a few years through immigration. Although rural population recovered slowly. Some professions, such as friars, took generations to recover. This disease makes you think about all the instantaneous death that can come into the world, and that can be carried ...
- 168: "Restore the Emperor Expel the Barbarians": The Causes of the Showa Restoration
- ... Footnote31 The white races had already grabbed the most valuable lands and had left the less desirable for the Japanese. The Japanese nationalists argued that Japan had been discriminated against by the western nations through immigration policies and by being forced to stop their expansion into Asia. The only answer, the nationalists claimed, was military expansion onto the nearby Asian continent. The nationalists and independent military became the foremost advocates of ...
- 169: Restore the Emperor Expel the Barbarians: The Causes of the Showa Restoration
- ... Footnote31 The white races had already grabbed the most valuable lands and had left the less desirable for the Japanese. The Japanese nationalists argued that Japan had been discriminated against by the western nations through immigration policies and by being forced to stop their expansion into Asia. The only answer, the nationalists claimed, was military expansion onto the nearby Asian continent. The nationalists and independent military became the foremost advocates of ...
- 170: Technology
- ... of miles to the United States in hopes of seeking religious freedom. There upon the shores of America, immigrant families stood close together in huge masses awaiting their entry into the country. Looming behind the immigration checkpoints were the dark clouds of smog where the plants and factories had been erected to manufacture exported goods to various other countries. Many of the immigrants filled in the necessary jobs needed for production ...
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