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.