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By 2008, the nation's total population grew to ______ million.
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Immigration is a central aspect of ______ history.
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Many tens of millions of people have come to live in the ______.
USA
The nation's commitment to 'the ______' and to its ideal of being a refuge for the poor and oppressed gained popular acceptance.
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The view that the nature of the nation was and should be a composite of many national ______ and cultures gained popular acceptance.
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For most of the foreign-born, life in the ______ has meant an improvement over their situation in the ‘old country’.
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Scandinavians had language problems that made them seem slow to comprehend, and at times they were ridiculed for their ______ ways.
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German Jews were excluded from ______ and the professions and were shunned in many social circles.
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The Irish suffered many forms of discrimination and were often stereotyped as ______, violent drunks.
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Anti-foreign agitation reached its first peak in the ______.
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In ______, the federal government took responsibility for regulating immigration.
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Germans were welcomed for their ______ knowledge and industry, and admired for a culture that was Europe's most respected at that time.
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Ellis Island was opened in ______ and was a famous screening depot for immigrants in New York Bay.
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All the large immigrant groups found themselves involved in controversies over the control and content of the ______ schools.
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The National Quota Acts represented the climax of a campaign for restriction that achieved its first result in ______.
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The pseudo-scientific racism of the early 1900s, which purported to prove experimentally the superiority of ______ over all other 'races', was evident in the list and later legislation.
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The influence of the ideological insecurity that grew after the ______ of 1917 was evident in the list and later legislation.
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The Emergency Quota Act, passed in ______, drastically reduced the annual number of European newcomers to 358,000.
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The Immigration Act of ______ provided a new approach to immigration.
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During the Cold War, the US competed with the ______ for the allegiance of non-aligned nations.
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The McCarran-Walter Act of ______ stated that race was no longer a reason for refusing someone an immigrant visa.
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The ______ Act of 1952 reserved the first 50 percent of visas for each country for people with needed skills.
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The national origins principle, which gave many ______ World countries tiny quotas, was kept in the law.
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All nations in the eastern hemisphere had the same limit of ______ immigrants annually.
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Among the poorest also include people who obtain visas because they are near-relatives of recent, more skilled ______ or who take jobs Americans do not want.
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Latino women recruited by agencies as live-in domestic servants and ______ bring their families and forge the links in ‘chain migration’.
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There are colonies of Hmong in ______, Vietnamese on the Mississippi Delta, east Indian hotel-owners across the Sunbelt, Middle Eastern Muslims in Detroit and New Jersey and large concentrations of Latinos.
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The population of Latinos has grown by 70 to 80 percent between the most recent US federal ______.
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These large foreign-born settlements have given rise to contemporary forms of ______ and nativism.
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Some Americans are again resorting to broad ______ to adjust to the changes in their country's population.
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