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…that the China trade which the open-door policy was designed to foster was largely illusory. He consequently labored to maintain Japan's friendship without compromising American interests. He fostered a "gentleman's agreement" on immigration of Japanese to the United…

…, usually known as Kate, came to the states in 1879, at the young age of twenty-three. Like so many other Irish immigrants of that time, she had suffered from poverty, and even hunger, in her native land and saw America as a place where she could go to try…

…to 200,000 in 1600, and more than doubled that, to 490,000 by 1700 (Barker 47). The immigration meant that there were now family as well as commercial links between London and the provinces. This proved useful when promoting goods and services, and when…

…to 200,000 in 1600, and more than doubled that, to 490,000 by 1700 (Barker 47). The immigration meant that there were now family as well as commercial links between London and the provinces. This proved useful when promoting goods and services, and when…

…a draft and in 1863, the north retaliated when the passed a conscription act of their own. This bill made men between the ages of 20 and 45 liable for military service. This bill was violently opposed by workingmen and immigrants. They called it the rich mans…

…World War II, Judaism was an important subculture in Europe and North America. Under Adolf Hitler’s regime, Jews were systematically persecuted and killed in concentration camps in Germany. Many liberal Western countries refused to take Jewish immigrants…

…work long hours, many were immigrants and others were Native Americans in search of a decent living; furthermore, they came home at night to horrible run down homes where sickly children played in piles of rubbish and rarely attended school. Crime, disease…

…in the U.S. were either Collura 2 Issei or Nisei. Issei were all Japanese Americans of first-generation immigration, meaning they were born in Japan. Nisei were all Japanese Americans who were born on American soil. At the time Issei were denied U.S…

…Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes is the life experience of a Catholic Irish boy, born in New York, to Irish immigrant parents, during the United States’ worse economic period in history, the depression era. At the tender age of four years old, Frankie…

…immigration to the United States and shouting racial and anti-Semitic epithets. Like many anti-Semites, these people hide their hate of Jews by claiming they are simply anti-Zionists and against the State of Israel. But when they constantly flash the Nazi salute…