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…to the United States. As many as 465,000 Jamaicans left to help in the reconstruction of the States’ economy after World War II. Since that time, no large scale immigration or emigration has occurred within the Jamaican population. The average male in Jamaica has…

…-160) During the time between 1850-1900, Perry Hall was called Germantown. This was when German and Irish immigrants settled in Perry Hall, also when new religions were introduced to the people of Perry Hall…

…Piedmont region. The Scotch-Irish and German immigrants of this section had hacked their small farms out of the wilderness. Their ideas conflicted with the aristocratic beliefs of the wealthy landowners of the Tidewater region. Jefferson was related to many…

…Kingdom came when the Auxumites from Ethiopia defeated the Cushites in 330 A.D. The expansion into Somalia from Arab and Persian mariners and immigrants produced a very healthy economy based off of trade. This system lasted several hundred…

…-wing, male and white, the other young, left-wing, female and black. The early exchanges were predictable. Then, the young black MP said she particularly resented Powell's assertion that however long immigrants lived here, they could never become British…

…until it was too late. "The tragedy of Maggie is that she can only ever redeem herself - and the country to which she has come - by ceasing to be" (Irving 7). Katrina Irving in "Gendered space, Racialized Space: Nativism, The Immigrant Woman, and Stephen…

…. One of a long and eminent line of violinmakers, Christian Frederick Martin was born in Germany. At the age of 15 he moved to Vienna to serve as an apprentice to the great guitar maker Johann Stauffer. In 1833 he immigrated to the United States, and set up…

…of their slaves because the price on each was so high that it was an investment, and it is not reasonable to mistreat such a large investment. The North however, had their own version of slavery, the wage slaves. These were free black men or immigrants living…

…. Modern immigration began early in the 19th century. Only about 4.5 million foreigners, mostly from Europe, settled in Brazil after then. Most were Italians and Portuguese, but there were also Spaniards and Germans, and later Slavs from Poland, Russia…

…immigration in 1939 (Smith 39). The conflict that ensued between the Yishuv and the British authorities eventually led the British government to submit the issue to the United Nations. In November of 1947, the United Nations called for the partition of Palestine…