U.S People

• Africans were brought to America primarily through the slave trade.
• Beginning in the 1820s, northern and western Europeans immigrated to America for various reasons, including economic opportunities, escape from political turmoil, and religious freedom.
• The law in the 1920s that significantly limited immigration to the United States was the Immigration Act of 1924.
• The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.
• The years 1830 to 1860 were the worst in the history of African-American enslavement.
• The Naturalization Act refers to several laws passed by the United States Congress that govern the process by which foreign-born individuals become citizens of the United States.
• Naturalization Act allowing any free white person of “good character” living in the U.S. for two years or longer to apply for citizenship.
• The Steerage Act of 1819 was a U.S. federal law that regulated conditions for passengers traveling in the steerage of ships arriving in American ports.
• What was America’s first anti-immigrant political party?

  Know-Nothing party
• Why was Know-Nothing party established?

  Anti-immigrant sentiment, particularly against Irish and German immigrants.
• Following the Civil War (1861-1865), some states passed their own immigration laws.
• The Underground Railroad is a vast network of individual people - many whites but pre-dominently black - who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada.
• Cotton played a significant role in the enslavement of African Americans and the displacement of Native Americans in the United States. The demand for it, particularly during the 19th century, fueled the expansion of plantation slavery in the South.
• The Trail of Tears (1838) removed the native Indians from the South, resettling them to ‘Indian Territory’ to give the richest cotton soil to the white. This removal, following the Louisiana Purchase, created vast lands for cotton.
• At least 14.000 years ago, the first American immigrants were Asian hunters getting to America across a land bridge where Bering Strait is today.
• Native Americans got the name ‘Indians’ because Christopher Columbus named the discovered land the ‘West Indies’.
• DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It's a United States immigration policy introduced by the Obama administration in 2012. It allows certain undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to request deferred action from deportation and obtain temporary work permits.
• The DREAM Act provided a pathway to U.S. citizenship to certain undocumented youth (Dreamers) who go to college and/or serve in the military while maintaining a good record.
• Central American migrant caravans are migrant caravans that travel from Central America to the Mexico–United States border to demand asylum in the United States.
• The United States is often described as a melting pot due to its history of immigration and cultural diversity, with people from various ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds coming together to form a single nation.