Monday, April 14, 2014

4-14

I am going to become a coal miner, there annual salary is in between 60 to 80,000 thousand a year.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

4-10

Vegetables (50$) have to eat

Meats (60$) need protein

Fruits and water (80$) to stay hydrated

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

section 21

1. An American citizen is a person that swear allegiance to the U.S. and is entitled to its protection of its laws.

2. Before the 1860's citizenship was not important to people living in the united states.

3. The 14th amendment was first constitutional definition.

4. The constitution declares that a person becomes an 90% of Americans are citizens by birth.

5. Wong Kim Ark sued the supreme court because it says if you are born here you are a citizen no matter if your parents are a citizen or not.

6. naturalization- legal process when a person can become a citizen of another country at some point after birth.

7. Usually naturalization is done individually, a person chooses to go through the process.

8. Collective naturalization- when entire groups are granted citizenship through en masse, granted citizenship through a treaty or an act.

9. Every American citizen has the right to voluntary abandon his/her citizenship: this is called expatriation. it is illegal for congress to take away citizenship for something you have done.

10. Naturalized citizens can lose their citizenship through denaturalization.

11. Marriage does not make a person a citizen it only shortens the time of the naturalization process.

12. Congress has exclusive power to regulate the crossing of this nations border.

13. Quotas for immigration began to exist- it limits the number of people allowed in the country.

14. Immigration act of 1965- did away with the quota system up to 270,000 immigrants are allowed into the U.S. each year.

15. The immigration act of 1990 governs admission of aliens into the U.S. this act allows 675,000 immigrants into the U.S. each year, special preferences to people with occupational talent.

16. Deportation- Some people get denied of coming to the U.S. deportation is legal process when aliens are required to leave country.

17. Biggest reason for deportation- illegal immigrant

4-8

This is a nice article kind of crazy.

Thursday, April 3, 2014



1.He is holding a sign saying it isn't fair that African Americans cant get a job.

2.WW11

3. He looks like he is disappointed

4. People not hiring because they think they cant do the jobs.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

4-1 notes

 Heterogeneous- People, cultures, etc.

 Immigrant- Legal aliens that move to a different country.

 Reservation- Public land given to native Americans by the gout.

 Refuges- Someone that has saved or has been saved.

 Simulation- Adapting to another country.

 population of the US prominently is white people

 Immigrants have arrived in near record numbers every year since the 1960s

 The groups have grown at rates several times higher than the white population

 Minority populations exceed white population in the following states: California Hawaii Mexico and Texas

 More females than males

 Why is there so much focus on the discrimination against African Americans
    - have been discriminated against longer
   - Most gains the nation has made in translating the constitution's guarantees of equality into a reality for all persons have come out of efforts made by and on behalf of African Americans
    - 14% are African Americans

 Native Americans were not use to the American diseases

 Poverty, joblessness

 Indian education attempted to redeem the lives of native Americans

 They die younger

Hispanic Americans-Spanish speaking background
    - Hispanic's are the largest minority group today at 50 million
    - Divided into 4 main groups- Mexican, Puerto Ricans, Cuban, Central and South Americans

 Asian Americans
      - Chinese laborers were the first Asians to come to America
      - Chinese exclusion act 1882- 80 years
      - WWII- All Japanese were evacuated to Pacific Coast
      - Congress eventually admitted that what they did was wrong
      - Put in concentration camps

 Women
      -Treated unfairly through education property rights and employment opportunities
      - Although women have made major progress, they are still not equal to men in numbers.
      - It is illegal to pay women  less than men.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

3-27

The supreme court should stay the way that it is. The president is the one that makes it that way so keep it.