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-9% of the Americans were Germans

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-a new Department of Immigration Statistic-> wanted to compress all information

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-were a big famine in Ireland
-> millions immigrated to the US

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- the big gold rush in California

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- failed March revolution in Germany
->500000 Germans immigrated to the US

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-the American civil war

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-Act for excluding Chinese people

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- racist programs against Jews in Russia

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-fist world war

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-5 mio. Germans went to the US

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-ca. 3 mio. Austria-Hungary’s left to come to the US, many by boat

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- 900000 came from Canada, who had France as old nationality to New England

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- 2 mio. italians came to the US

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- for the first time a quota (Emergency Quota Act)

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-Immigration Act followed

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-Act for Excluding Chinese people ended

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- because of consequences of the war many European wanted to immigrant

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- was a row of priority for the first time (ethnicy, questions after family)

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- since then unite quota

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- Green card replacement programm

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- made another act to prevent illegal immigration: “Personal Responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation Act“
-> exclude ethnicy groups from privileges so only legal immigration can get a “Green Card“

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- Citizenship USA Initiative

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- built exceptions from Act from 1996 for immigrants, who immigrated before 96 in the area of food for and help for persons with disabilities

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-exceptions for pregnant women and legal staying kids
-the states can make itself exceptions for immigrated people who came before 96 and own devices for immigrated groups if its in the law of the state
-> with other acts together it ensure that the number of the naturalizes increased
=2003 463.204 got naturalized, in average from 1997-2003 634.000
-Global cap on refugees to be admitted in the USA In 2001 to 2015, between 70,000 and 80,000.
2005
- Immigration laws strengthened
1 May 2006,
-protests by immigrants to draw attention to their economic importance.
>Since then, the argument for and against new immigration laws has hardened.

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2010-now
Global cap on refugees to be admitted in the USA
2016
-Increased to 85,000
2017
-limited to 50,000

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General information to the immigration groups:
-> Latin American immigration groups
(Border between USA and Mexico)
-> European immigration groups
~> Germans ( German-American)
~> Irishman ( Irish American)
~> Italien ( Italian American)
-> Switzerland
~> 2. half of the 19 century
~> poorest country to this time
=> some Swiss settlements were built
-> Sweden
~> came to the end of the 19 century
~> 1900: After Stockholm, Chicago was the city with the largest number of Swedish residents in the world
-> Greece
~> 1.153.295 people with Greek descent
~>mainly concentrated in New York, Chicago and Florida