A History of the U.S.A.Macmillan, 1974 - 730 pages |
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... immigrants estimated to have crossed the Atlantic , many were in fact German - speaking people from Alsace and Lorraine . ) These , of course , were the countries that had provided the vast majority of settlers since colonial times ...
... immigrants estimated to have crossed the Atlantic , many were in fact German - speaking people from Alsace and Lorraine . ) These , of course , were the countries that had provided the vast majority of settlers since colonial times ...
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... immigrants on the east and west coasts , as a result of poverty , lack of appropriate skills , or indebtedness for their passages , continued after the war and into the twentieth century . From the 1850s the Chinese in the West were ...
... immigrants on the east and west coasts , as a result of poverty , lack of appropriate skills , or indebtedness for their passages , continued after the war and into the twentieth century . From the 1850s the Chinese in the West were ...
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... immigrants were so often seen by labour leaders and reformers as a conservative barrier to change , at times of nativist agitation the newcomer emerged as a dan- gerous radical . There was suspicion of the Irish support for the ...
... immigrants were so often seen by labour leaders and reformers as a conservative barrier to change , at times of nativist agitation the newcomer emerged as a dan- gerous radical . There was suspicion of the Irish support for the ...
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The Colonial Legacy | 3 |
The Advance of Democracy | 39 |
The Civil War and Reconstruction | 114 |
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