Essay
Why Sports History Is American History
In the classroom, examples from sports can explain key events in American history and help explore how people in American society have grappled with racial, ethnic, and regional differences in...
Advanced Search
Current Criteria
- ›› Eras and Sub-Eras : Immigration and Migration
Refine your search
Refine your search by adding another term. Type 'all' to view all options for the category.
Did not find what you were looking for?
return to the basic search,
search for multimedia, or
search the collection
Showing results 11 – 20 of 101
Essay
Why Immigration Matters
It is difficult today to recapture the iconoclasm signaled by Oscar Handlin’s opening words to his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Uprooted more than fifty years ago: “Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.”
Essay
Coming to America: Ellis Island and New York City
New York City is a kind of archipelago, a Philippines on the Hudson River. Only one borough—the Bronx—is actually attached to the American mainland. There are some forty islands in...
Glossary Term – Event
Literacy test bill
Congress passed a bill sponsored by Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, with support from the Immigration Restriction League, requiring a literacy test for immigrants, though President Grover Cleveland later vetoed the bill in 1897.
Glossary Term – Event
Immigrants at 14.7 percent of population
Foreign-born immigrants made up 14.7 percent of the population, up from 9.7 percent in 1850.
Glossary Term – Event
Anti-Chinese bill vetoed
President Rutherford B. Hayes vetoed a Congressional bill restricting Chinese immigration on the basis that it violated the 1868 Burlingame Treaty, which provided for unrestricted Chinese immigration into the United States.
Glossary Term – Event
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was the nation’s first law to ban immigration by race or nationality. The act, which was renewed and enforced until 1943, banned Chinese immigration for ten years and prohibited Chinese from becoming citizens.
Glossary Term – Event
Hull House opened
In Chicago, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened Hull House, a settlement house offering services to the poor, the working-class, and immigrants.
Glossary Term – Event
American Protective Association formed
In Clinton, Iowa, the American Protective Association was founded as a secret order to restrict Catholic immigration in the United States.
Glossary Term – Event
Bureau of Immigration founded
The Bureau of Immigration was established in the Treasury Department.