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Railroad and Farm Laborers In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Mexican American pioneer families such as the Urquides, Fontes, Ortiz, Amera, Valdez, Galindo, Ocampo, Ursino, Escaso, Ruiz, …
Between 1990 and 2005, the Latino population in Georgia increased 474 percent; by 2000, there were Latinos living in every one of Georgia’s 159 counties. African Americans, who compose …
One of the hallmarks of Puritanism is the theological theme of transformation. At the center of the Puritan idea was the impetus to transform the Church of England by …
U.S. Census Bureau, 2007. American Community Survey Reports. Race/Ethnicity Reports. The Hispanic Community-2004. http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/acs-03.pdf. Aranda, Lucia. Latinos in Hawaii. In Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. …
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW Over the last quarter century the Latino population in Idaho has dramatically increased, as it has nationally. The 2000 Idaho census showed 101,690 people of Workers at …
In addition, the Virginia Company initiated a program called headright, which offered fifty acres of land to emigrants who could pay their own passage and an additional fifty acres …
Explorers Francisco Gordillo and Pedro de Quexos explore the Atlantic Coast from Florida to Cape Hateras, North Carolina. Explorer Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon founds the first named European settlement …
Powhatan was the most powerful man in eastern Virginia, or Tsenacommacah, when Jamestown was founded there in 1607. Powhatan was the father of Pocahontas and the brother of Opechancanough, …
Identity: Facts and Figures Identity in the state of Hawaii can be said to be more sui generis than in other states due to its past and present history. …
Bean, Frank D., and Marta Tienda. The Hispanic Population of the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988. Office of Latino Affairs, District of Columbia. http://ola.dc.gov/ola/site/default.aspFolaNav. Portes, Alejandro, …