| Term | Definition |
|---|
| 10,000 | years ago for Native Americans |
| 1500 | year for Spanish |
| 1600 | year for English/Scotch-Irish/African |
| 1700 | year for French/German (Catholic) |
| 1800 | year for Irish, Scandinavian/Chinese and Japanese (to California) |
| 1900 | year for Jews, S & E Europe (Catholic) |
| 1924 | year of National Origins Act |
| National Origins Act | cut off large scale immigration to U.S.; used quotas |
| 1965 | year of Immigration Act |
| Immigration Act | allowed anyone to come from Communist countries (after Cold War) |
| 2000 | year for Asian, Hispanic/Latino (S & SE) |
| 2 | pop for NA (millions) |
| 15-20 | pop for NA in 1492 (millions) |
| .9 | % of US for NA |
| 1/3 | amt of NA that live on reservations (fraction) |
| NA | Most economically and socially disadvantaged group in the nation |
| 15 | % of NA adults unemployed |
| 31 | % of NA that live below poverty line |
| NA | Suicide rate 2x general population; alcohol abuse causes 1 in 3 deaths |
| 65 | % of NA that graduate HS |
| 10 | % of Na that graduate from college |
| White, Anglo Saxon, Protestant | WASP |
| WASP | Tend to be very wealthy (New England) or quite poor (Appalachia) |
| WASP | The Historically dominant group in American society; all presidents except Kennedy |
| AA | pop. 12-13%; mostly in rural South and urban North |
| 12-13 | % of pop. for AA |
| 10 | % of AA Unemployed (about twice the national average) |
| 40 | % of AA children live in poverty (10% whites) |
| AA | Very successful in entertainment industry (only areas that were “allowed”) |
| LH | New largest minority group |
| 13-14 | % of LH in US |
| MExico | Largest concentration of LH from ____; but many in the West have been here for centuries |
| Puerto Ricans | US territory; have citizenship; most live in Fla. And NY |
| Florida, NY | where most Puerto Ricans live |
| Cubans | Arrived in 1950s (upper class) 1970s (poor); huge influence in Fla. |
| Germans and Irish | 1840s (still largest groups of white ethnics) |
| 1900s | time period for Poles, Italians, Jews, Greeks, Russians |
| WASPs | white ethnics faced discrimination from _____ |
| white ethnics | Came to Northern cities; faced discrimination by WASPS (anti-Catholic riots) |
| Asian-Americans | The Model Minority |
| Chinese | 1850s-1880s; railroads and mining in the West |
| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | banned the Chinese |
| 1882 | year of Chinese Exclusion Act |
| 1960s | second wave of chinese immigration (Taiwan and Hong Kong) |
| Japanese | 1890s came to Hawaii and California; stopped in 1908 |
| Japanese | Suffered internment (120,000) during WWII |
| Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese | most banned by the National Origins Act of 1924 |
| 1924 | year of National Origins Act |
| Immigration Act of 1965 | allowed “educated” people to immigrate |
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