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93 Cards in this Set
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when was the alien registraition act |
1940 |
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what did the alien registraition act requir |
non citizens to register with the feseral govenrment |
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what did the alien registration act become after the war |
green card system |
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wheb was the war brides act |
1946 |
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what did the war brides act allow |
150,000 foriegn wives of us service men to settle in america |
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when was the displaced persons act |
1948 |
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when was the displaced persons act extended |
1950 |
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what did the displacced persons act allow |
immigraitoon of 415,000 people displaced by war over 4 years |
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what did the displaced person act have to be within |
quota limit |
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when was the mcCarren walter act |
1952 |
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what does the McCarren Walter act do |
lrevises ther terms of immigraitoon |
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what does the McCarren walter retain |
a limit to the number of immigrants to be admitted (150000) and quota system |
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what does the mcCarren walter act base the balance of immigrants on |
1920s census which means 85% of immigrants come northern and western europe |
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what does the mccarren walter act mean for asian immigrants |
allows for 100,000 and introduced a prefderence system for skilled workers |
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where doesnt the mccarren walter act apply |
western hemisphere |
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who does the mcarren walter act take into account |
refugees |
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when did operaition wetback begin |
1954 |
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what does opperation wetback do |
depkrt 3.8 million mexicans |
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wheb was the hart celler act |
1965 |
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what does the hart celler act abolish |
quotas |
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what does the hart celler act increase |
asian immigraition |
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what system does the hart celler act introduce |
favouring catogires of people over specific nationalities |
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what annual limit does the hart celler act set for the western hemisphere |
120000 |
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what annual limit does the hart celler act set for the rest of the world (not western hemispher) |
170000 |
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wheb was the xuban adjustment act |
1966 |
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what does the cuban adjustment act do |
gives permenant residence to cubans enterinf the country after 1959 who have lived in cuba for a year |
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when is the armed forces naturalisation act |
1968 |
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what does the armed forces naturalisation act do |
ammends the 1965 har celler act to make anyone who has fought for the US a citizen |
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when was the 1965 immigraition and nationality act expabded |
1976 |
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how many immigrants were ther 1941-80 |
11 million |
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what was the average per year immigraition in the 70s |
400,000 |
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who was not included in limits as part of hart celler act |
immidiate family members of us citizens |
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what was the proportion of foreign borb americans in 1970 |
<5% |
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which president strongly arfued for increased immigraition |
kennedy in his book nation of immigrants |
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how many europeans allowed into us through displaced persons act 1948&50 |
600,00₩ |
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what was the effect of hart celler acr on eastern and southern europe |
increased immigairtion |
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how did the hart celler act affect chinease immigrants |
increased by 86% 1960-70 |
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what % of the populaition did asian americans increase from and to 1940-80 |
0.4-1.5% |
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how many asian immigrants were there by 1985 |
700,000 |
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how much better then whites was the japenese median income in 1979 |
$2,000 |
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what percent of japenese immigrants married out |
50% |
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how many chinese adults in us had college degrees |
1/4 |
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how many chinese adults in us had educaiton beyond the age of 13 |
1/4 |
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how many chinease immigrants fraduated high school compared to the national average |
68% compared to 58% |
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what was unemployment in san frans china town |
double the cities average |
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what was the tb rate in san frans china town |
6 times higher |
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what were there both higher rates of within chinease immigrants |
overty and earninngs |
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how much better off were chinese immigrants that arrived before 1970 |
$1000 better off and 4% lowrr poverty |
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how many filipino immigrants were there during the 13 years of the mccarren walter act |
32,201 |
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according to qutas during the mccarren walter act how many filipinos should there have been during its 13 years |
1300 |
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why did the political side of the antt filipino movement becone pro independence |
this would remove their staus as american nationals |
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how maby official fillipino immigrants were recorded in 1963 |
3618 |
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how many non immigrant fillipinos were recorded in 1963 |
13,860 |
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what were filipino non immgrants |
tourists, buissness people, students mnay of whom eventually were able to chane their status to immigrant |
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what did the hart celler act facciliatate for filipinos |
ease of entry |
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under hart celler act what the quota for eastern hemishoere countires e.g. philippians |
20,000 a year |
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how many filipino immigrants were their in the year of 1990 |
1.4 million |
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what did filipino populaition in us double from and to during the 70s |
336,000-774,000 |
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what have philipunos been since the hart celler act |
one of the largest nationalities immigrating |
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what % of nursing graduete emmigrated to the us from the phillipeans annually |
20% |
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whay amount of foriegn born filipino women over 16 were in the us labour force by 1980 |
7/10 |
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when were anti filipino marriage laws abolished |
1962 |
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how many vietnamese arrived as refugees after the fall of saigon |
120,000 |
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what fraction of vietnamese were below poverty line by 1980 |
1/3 |
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what fraction of vietnamese were recieivng welfare by 1980 |
1/4 |
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how many vietnamese refugees permitted after fall of south vietnam in 1975 |
130,000 |
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how many vietnamese lived in the us by 1980 |
245,000 |
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what fraction of vietnamese immigrants were managers |
1/8 |
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what was the median income of korean immigrants |
$14,000 only a small amount below national average |
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what % of korean immigrants graduated highschool |
90% |
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how many korean immigrants were there by 1980 |
289000 |
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what percent of korean children live with both parents |
90% |
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what fraction of korean imigrants were managers and executives |
1/4 |
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how many cubans allowed in after revolution 1959 due to displaced persons ac5 1948 and50 |
650,000 |
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how many mexicnas were deported as part of opperaition wetback 1954-8 |
3.8million |
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what was the braccerro program |
us gov incrouraged mexican workers to come to us |
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by 1980 what fraction of mexicans were americna citizens |
1/4 |
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what was avergae turn out within mexican americans |
50% |
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what % of mexicans had high school diplomas |
45% |
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how many mexicans did not speak english at all |
15million |
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how much less then white people was the mexican median income |
$10,000 |
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when was immigratiom from latin american restricted for the first time |
1976 by a new immigration and nationality act |
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what quota did 1976 immogration and nationality act set for latin america |
20,000 annualy |
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how many illigal immigrants came a year from mexico in the 70s |
60,000 |
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of the 645,000 jobs created in la county in the 1970s what fraction were taken by mexicans |
1/3 |
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how many mexicans were deported in 1980 |
1 million |
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how many migrants did cuban gov allow to sail to florida in 1980 |
125000 |
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what did carter administraition discover r.e cuban migrants heading to florida |
castro had sent some criminals and mental health patients |
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where were cuban migrants heading to florida held whilts they were being processed |
camps and prisons |
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what % of cuban migrants heading on boat to florida were denied citizenship |
2% |
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how many mexican did census burea estimate there were in us population in 1980 |
8.6 million |
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how many mexicans were there in 1900 |
381000-562000 |
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when was antion of immigrant publushed |
1958 |
