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