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…In the early 1840's, California was a distant area that only a few Americans had seen. San Francisco had barely a few hundred residents. One of the wealthiest people in the region was John Sutter. He was a Swiss immigrant who came to California in 1839…

…of the Blancos, whereupon Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay formed a tripartite alliance against Paraguay (see Triple Alliance, War of the). During the 19th and 20th cent. waves of immigration, chiefly from Europe, augmented the Uruguayan population. Government Reforms…

…are immigrants. Five students come from Portugal, two come from Puerto Rico, and one very recently from Brazil. There are seven students who qualify for Individual Education Plans or 504 plans. Two of these students display behaviors that are characteristic of ADHD…

…, benzoic acids, benzoates and formaldehyde in food to the young volunteers. The results of Wiley's test helped in the passage of the Pure Food Reform act. In 1906 Upton Sinclair published the book The Jungle, which told the story of an immigrant family…

…to the immigrant's hometown. One of the biggest things of the economy was the North American Free Trade Agreement or better known as NAFTA. NAFTA in a nutshell is the gradual removal of tariffs (which governs the rules and regulations of the Trade Agreement) and other…

…in one sense; that this phrase only held true for the European immigrant experience, not those from Africa, Asia, or anywhere else. Currently, as in the past, people of European decent or Caucasians have maintained the "majority" position of population…

…is the extent of involvement that the Chinese government have in Hong Kong? Presently, as stated in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the territory has been granted autonomy as well as retaining its own legal system, currency, customs, immigration authorities…

…and national strength.'2 Japan's striving for purity is very different form a North American idea of open doors and diversity as strength. Japan is relatively closed to immigration to outside countries. However, this feeling of superiority does not stop them from…

…to those organizations and units actively trying to prevent Jewish immigration into the Land of Israel. Stern, by contrast, believed that the British constituted the enemy of the Jewish People equally if not to a greater degree than the Germans, as they were…

…of 1665. The seventeenth century had experienced vast economic growth accompanied by a substantial increase in the population, which by 1650 had reached 400,000. This was accounted for due to a flourish of immigrants, most of which were poor hoping to benefit…