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    “Know nothing” Movement vs. Anti-Chinese campaign Both the Anti-bellum nativist movement and the Anti-Chinese movement post-Civil War shared the concept “anti-immigrants,” and the fear that the foreigners would threaten American society’s well-being as a republican society and an ideally “white” society. Religiously, the United States was predominantly a protestant nation and had a long tradition of anti-Catholicism. Racially, and lots of native-born American “whites” recognized the Anglo-Saxon

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    Ch 13 Outline Protestants, Catholics and the Wars of Religion I. Personalities A. The Increasing Radicalization of the Movement 1. Ulrich Zwingli—1448-1531 a. Supported by guilds in Switzerland. b. Ideas differed from Luther's. 1. Luther kept sacraments (baptism and the Eucharist) 2. Advocated revolution. c. Supports union of church and state, Catholics resist, civil war in 1531 1. Catholics win, Zwingli captured and executed 2. Peace treaty resembles Lutheran Knights'

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    The Chicano movement began in the 1940’s and was able to unify far more Mexican American people than previous movements. Many famous historical figures were a part of this movement including Cesar Chavez who was the leader of the United Farm Workers and Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales who explained what it truly meant to be “Chicano” in his poem Yo Soy Joaquin. Mexican-Americans who considered themselves “Chicanos” were proud of their culture and heritage and looked to achieve equality for the Mexican race

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    About noon, Antoine appeared, accompanied by a Catholic priest who from then on would take care of us. To continue our route toward Roman sur Isere need to wait after dark they say to Claude. There the Catholic father would lead us to a shoe factory warehouse, the owner of shoe factory giving refuge to the Jews, who fleeing the Nazi. The factory at the center of Romans' sur Isere, but the warehouse back, it’s a few meters from the train station. Again, our group walked between the vineyards to reach

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    Ireland still remained under British rule, which frustrated the Irish for a variety of reasons, the main one being religious differences (Catholic vs. Protestant) between the Irish and the British. The Anglo-Irish war started in 1919 was a result of the growing frustration and the Irish nationalist movement that emerged from said frustration. The Irish nationalist movement was started by a group of revolutionaries known as the IRA (Irish Republican Army) who believed that the only way Ireland could achieve

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    American people to recognizing the responsibility that they have towards each other. She shows her own solidarity by protesting to end discrimination against African Americans and for the development of equal rights for women. In her paper, The Catholic Worker, she writes, “The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.” The message she constantly mentions in her writing is that although the interdependence of groups has been acknowledged by some governments and organizations

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    It is not unheard of to see workers protesting against the executives of their company; whether it is for better working conditions, a higher salary, or new policies that they don’t agree with. In fact, throughout American history, specifically with beginning with the Industrial Revolution, employees have protested for their rights to be acknowledged and for their voices to be heard. However, the Market Basket protest that took place during the summer of 2014 is an exception to this norm. Not unlike

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    1. What are the major economic problems that have plagued Latin America in the 20th century? During the 20th century Latin America went through a change after the U.S made the clam to directly defend Latin America. This caused a sudden trade switch from the Europe nation to the U.S. With this trade switch we start to see a big gap between the lower and upper class. With this gap the poor gets poorer and the rich become Carlos Slim. Carlos Slim was the world’s richest person form 2010-2013 and is

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    putting it in context by going through the full history of factories in Medellin. From the establishment of factories, the early hiring practices, strikes and their effects on factory work, and the gradual transition of men becoming the primary workers. The author, Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, argues her thesis that the transition from a primarily female workforce to a primarily male workforce is due to changes in what was seen as proper or improper work for women as opposed to

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    act, which was designed to lower the amount of Irish immigrants coming into the United States. This law was created as a response to the growing number of Irishmen with in the United States, with the bill’s goal being to only allow skilled European workers into the country. Hidetaka Hirota writes in his article “The Moment of Transition: State Officials, the Federal Government, and the Formation of American Immigration Policy” for the journal of American History, that “the 1882 Immigration Act left

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