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People (4)

Labor organizer who won rights for America's farmworkers

The poet whose words gave the Statue of Liberty its voice

Social reformer, Nobel laureate, and founder of Hull House

Joseph Pulitzer

The immigrant publisher who built the New York World, 1847-1911

Places (13)

The Pacific gateway where arrival often meant detention, not welcome

Birthplace of the American Revolution and one of the republic's oldest cities

The state that absorbed the Gold Rush, built Hollywood, and became America's largest economy

The city that built itself from nothing, burned down, rebuilt, and became America's most American city

The New York Harbor immigration station that processed 12 million arrivals, 1892–1954

The city that became America's second metropolis by inventing itself from scratch

The Dutch town at the tip of Manhattan, 1625-1664

The city where France, Spain, Africa, and America collided to produce a culture unlike any other

The Swedish and Finnish colony on the Delaware, 1638-1655

The empire state — gateway, financial capital, and engine of American ambition

America's largest city and the commercial, cultural, and immigrant capital of the nation

California's gateway city, remade by gold, catastrophe, and perpetual reinvention

Statue of Liberty

The French gift that became America's most enduring symbol of freedom and welcome

Events (7)

California Gold Rush

The 1848–1855 mass migration that transformed California and accelerated the sectional crisis

The contested October holiday marking Columbus's 1492 landing

New York Draft Riots

The deadliest civil insurrection in American history, ignited by the inequities of the Civil War draft

The Great Migration

The movement of six million Black Americans from the South to the North and West, 1910–1970

Contested origins, the 1904 fair, and the rehabilitation of ground beef

German butchers, Coney Island, the ballpark, and fiercely local rules

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The 1848 peace that gave the United States a third of a continent — and intensified the slavery crisis

Documents (3)

Chinese Exclusion Act

The First Federal Law to Bar Immigration by Race, 1882

Immigration Act of 1924

The Johnson-Reed Act That Closed America's Door by Race and Nation

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

The Hart-Celler Act that abolished the national-origins quotas and remade America

Concepts (11)

The belief that effort and merit guarantee opportunity in America

How Indigenous crops, forced labor, immigration, and industry built a continental cuisine

How a country assembled a sound out of Africa, Europe, and the South

From a 1973 Bronx block party to the dominant popular form

The continuous movement of people that built, transformed, and defined the United States

Judaism in America

From a 1654 landing in New Amsterdam to the largest Jewish diaspora community in history

Machine Politics

The urban political organizations that traded services for votes and ran American cities for a century

The recurring American belief that immigrants threaten the national character

Tejano kitchens, the chili queens of San Antonio, and the combination plate

U.S.–Mexico Relations

A 1,954-mile border, a war that one side calls an invasion, and two centuries of inseparable entanglement

The great demographic transformation that moved America from a rural to an urban nation

Organizations (3)

Jane Addams's settlement house that pioneered American social work, 1889

The New York political machine that ran on patronage and graft, 1789–1960s

The Department of Homeland Security

The cabinet department built out of September 11, 2002

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