Category: History - American
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Who shall forecast the effect of this wholesale admission of aliens to full citizenship and potential political power in the United States? How many of these men were among thos...
5. Part 5The importance of it lies in the fact--obvious to any right thought about it--that we want for our new citizens _only those who come of their own accord and free will_. We want,...
3. Part 3Let us come straight to the fact that this absence of exclusive racial marks is the distinguishing physical characteristic of the American. True of him as of no other now or eve...
8. Part 8... has acquired (even after so short an operation of the new system) a formality and dignity which is in some measure commensurate with the importance of the Act and the gravit...
11. Part 11The applicant must be able to “speak the English language”--this is required by the law. It is enforced with a great variety of degrees of strictness. Many an alien can understa...
27. Part 27During the year, for the purpose of including the wife in this citizenship-betterment campaign by the public schools, the bureau wrote a special letter personally addressed to t...
9. Part 9There was a dubious situation regarding Porto Ricans; for it was held at first that, when the United States acquired Porto Rico and the Philippines by the Spanish War, these peo...
10. Part 10The law of 1906 limited the life of a declaration of intention to seven years. Prior to that there was no limit, and even after the passage of that Act it was held in practice t...
14. Part 14(4) A majority of the judges require of petitioners proof of ability to _read_ the English language; some require also ability to write it--although the law requires only abilit...
34. Part 34... The qualifications that we have required of people in the past who intend to become citizens is that they be men of good moral character and that they are attached to the pr...
4. Part 4The whole situation was intensified during the years when corruption reached its greatest heights by the conditions ensuing upon the discovery of gold in California. The port of...
12. Part 12Mr. Raymond F. Crist, then Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization, in testimony before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, prior to the enactment of the Act of...
33. Part 33It is not a question of “we” and “they”; _they_ are the whole thing. In Minnesota there is no “Scandinavian problem”--_they_ are _us_. In a large measure they have become the be...
6. Part 6The most common difficulties arise practically, however, from the fact that under the terms of his declaration to become a citizen of the United States, the alien repudiates his...
15. Part 15In many courts the point of view of the judge and that of the naturalization examiner are at variance, and this leads in some cases to open bitterness. Some examiners quibble an...
7. Part 7The people of the United States resident within any State are subject to two governments; one State and the other national; but there need be no conflict between the two. The po...
28. Part 28Time and again, since the beginning of our existence as a nation, efforts--some of them with a measure of success promising or menacing according to one’s sympathy and point of...
26. Part 26Or, if she be unmarried, the conditions are little better so far as concerns encouragement to be interested in political affairs. It is only potentially that she is a factor in...
25. Part 25But the foreign-born woman, if married, is subject to a substantial limitation. She has citizenship only if her husband has it; she derives it, not by virtue of any act or wish...
16. Part 16========================= 1908{1} $193,000 1909{1} 150,000 1910 150,000 1911 152,861 1912 175,000 1913 200,000 1914 225,000 1915 250,000 1916 275,000 1917 275,000 1918 305,000 1...
31. Part 31The Italians as a whole, in Chicago as in many other places, have been more united in their action than most other racial groups, and under their ancient habits of padrone leade...
2. Part 228. Principal Occupations Represented in Petitions for Naturalizations filed in seven Cities 1913-1914, ratio between Number of Petitioners and total of Foreign Born White Males...
22. Part 22Another authority which Congress conferred upon the Bureau in aid of the national undertaking in Europe was a new code of procedure by which recognition should be given to certa...
23. Part 23The situation described in paragraph (c) was the one under force of which Congress, in the Selective Service Act of May 18, 1917, based the draft “upon liability to military ser...
32. Part 32On the whole, the best index of Socialist political strength is the vote recorded in the ballot box. A tabulation of the vote of the Socialist party in the presidential election...
30. Part 30Now the results of the election in the wards dominated by those nationalities might rationally be held to show a pronounced effect of that propaganda, but it was no secret, the...
29. Part 29An exceptional instance of an attempt to analyze an election without preliminary bias appears in a study of “The Political Mind of Foreign-born Americans,” contributed by Dr. Ab...
17. Part 17Meanwhile we may try to know and understand the facts. This is not so easy as might be supposed, for the facts are hard to get. The student of the naturalization and political a...
21. Part 21Average interval before filing petition after arrival at ages 21 or over by races. The bars which are in black ((filled with / character)) represent countries from which the sub...
40. Part 40Political: Admission, 1 Americanization, 37-39 Clubs, 33-37 Corruption, 2, 24-25, 341-345 Frauds, 29 Immigrant influence, 339-340 Indifference, 320 Interest In England, 24 Issue...
18. Part 18======================================================================= “OLD” RACES || “NEW” RACES ---------------------+-------------++--------------------+------------- | Per...
19. Part 19===================================================== STATE | RATIO || STATE | RATIO ---------------------+-------++---------------+------ United States | 65.1 || Illinois | 64....
35. Part 35That your Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, made this ........ day of ........, A. D., 19.... in this County, Judicial District and State, gives...
20. Part 20In this table there are 14 countries listed whose per cent of denials exceeds that for all countries. Of these only four supply the “new” immigration. And of the seven showing a...
39. Part 39(Part One) ========================================================================= | | | BAR- | BLACK-| BRICK &| CARP- |CHAUFF-| CITY | BAKERS | BARBERS|TENDERS| SMITHS| STONE...
13. Part 13According to the report of the Commissioner of Naturalization for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, a total of 2,306 courts of all these kinds have exercised naturalization...
1. Part 1Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book. Many of the Tables have associated footnotes, which have been kept at the bo...
36. Part 36==================================================== | PETITIONERS | TIME BETWEEN AGE AT +--------+----------+ 21 YEARS (OR ARRIVAL | | | LATER ARRIVAL) | Number | Per Cent | AN...
38. Part 38(Part Two) =================================================================== | | AVERAGE TIME | | TOTAL | ELAPSING BETWEEN | AVERAGE LENGTH | NUMBER OF | ATTAINING AGE OF | OF...
37. Part 37(Part Three) ======================================================================= | UNABLE TO| | NO | | | COUNTRY | PRODUCE |ALREADY|CERTIF-| PREMA- |MISCELL-| NO OF BIRTH |...
41. Part 41[150] This was accomplished by the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The Fifteenth Amendment, proclaimed in 1870, already prohibited exclusion on th...