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Politics Trump’s inauguration: After a divisive election season, Donald Trump officially became the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017. In a 16-minute inaugural address (the shortest since Jimmy Carter‘s in 1977), Trump repeated his “America First” campaign slogan in which he delivered a dark-toned nationalist, populist message. The slogan “America First” […]

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History of San Francisco’s Chinatown

Chinese Immigration to the United States Most of the early Chinese immigration to the United States can be traced to the mid-1800s. These early immigrants—some 25,000 in the 1850s alone—came seeking economic opportunity in America. The Chinese arriving in San Francisco, who came primarily from the Taishan and Zhongshan regions as well as Guangdong province […]

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The Irish in Boston

Across the Atlantic: from Famine to War The Irish presence in America dates back to colonial times, when a handful of immigrants came to the New World for greater economic opportunity. Ireland was governed by Great Britain until 1948, when 26 of its 32 counties seceded to form the Republic of Ireland (the six remaining […]

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The Rise of Tenement Housing In the first half of the 19th century, many of the more affluent residents of New York’s Lower East Side neighborhood began to move further north, leaving their low-rise masonry row houses behind. At the same time, more and more immigrants began to flow into the city, many of them […]

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The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression

Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.

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How Border-Crossing Became a Crime in the United States

In 1929, Section 1325 criminalized undocumented immigration for the first time. Its aim was to decrease Mexican immigration.

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The 1840 U.S. Census Was Overly Interested in Americans’ Mental Health

Census workers were expected to count ‘insane’ and ‘idiotic’ Americans for half a century.

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Mamie Tape

The 8-Year-Old Chinese American Girl Who Helped Desegregate Schools—in 1885

Mamie Tape’s bid to desegregate San Francisco schools went to the California Supreme Court seven decades before Brown v. Board.

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1917

Immigration act passed over President Wilson’s veto

Immigration
1954

Ellis Island closes

Immigration
1924

President Coolidge signs Immigration Act of 1924

U.S. Presidents
1885

Chinese miners are massacred in Wyoming Territory

19th Century
1952

McCarran-Walter Act goes into effect, revising immigration laws

Cold War
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