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What were the causes and effects of the rise of the Sunbelt?
Causes: Defense industries, army bases, aerospace industry, computer industry, air conditioning, deregulation. Effects: Population shift, political change, cultural impact.
What were the causes and effects of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
Cause: End of nativist quota systems. Effects: Increased and diversified immigration, cultural enrichment, labor force influx.
What were the causes and effects of civil wars in Central America?
Cause: US meddling. Effect: Increased immigration from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
What were the causes and effects of the DACA program?
Cause: Failed bipartisan immigration bill. Effect: Protection for some undocumented immigrants, controversy over executive power.
What were the causes and effects of increased immigration?
Cause: Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Effect: Polarization of the electorate and with nativist backlashes.
What were the causes and effects of the growth of the Hispanic population?
Cause: Immigration from Latin America, as well as by high birth rates among Hispanic Americans. Effect: Increased from 4 percent of the total population in 1960 to 18 percent in 2020.
What were the causes and effects of the growth of the Asian American population?
Cause: Immigration from Asia, as well as by high birth rates among Asian Americans. Effect: Increased from 1 percent of the total population in 1960 to 6 percent in 2020.
What were the causes and effects of the Baby Boomer generation entering retirement age?
Cause: Baby Boomers entering retirement age. Effect: Experiencing a significant increase in the number of older adults.
What were the causes and effects of the younger generation, known as Millennials and Gen Z, growing in size?
Cause: The younger generation, known as Millennials and Gen Z, growing in size. Effect: Becoming an increasingly important part of the population.
What were the causes and effects of the United States having a long history of immigration?
Cause: People from around the world coming to the country in search of economic opportunity and a better life. Effect: Helped to shape the demographics of the country.
What was the significance of WWII in migration?
Increased migration to the South and West due to defense industries and army bases.
What was the impact of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
It ended national origin quotas, leading to increased and more diverse immigration.
What was the impact of the rise of the Sunbelt?
Shift in political power, economic growth in the South and West, and cultural changes.
What was the significance of Reagan's amnesty in the 1980s?
Granted legal status to approximately 3 million undocumented immigrants.
What was the impact of the rise of the computer industry in the 1980s?
The computer industry of the 1980s and onward were based in places like Texas and Silicon Valley in California.
What was the impact of the growth of the aerospace industry?
The aerospace industry continued to grow in Florida (NASA), California, and Seattle (Boeing).
What was the impact of the deregulation or continued lack of labor protections in Southern states?
Manufacturing and other industries moving their production facilities to more Southern states, particularly in the automobile industry.
What was the impact of the increase in Latinx immigrants?
Hispanics outnumbering African Americans as a percentage of the American population (around 16% vs. 13% as of 2015), and to Hispanic clusters in California and the American Southwest.
What was the impact of the increase in immigration from Asia?
Asian-Americans are now the fastest growing group of immigrants, thanks partly to US immigration law that prioritizes high-skilled immigrants and the general level of assimilation that Asian-Americans have achieved in recent years through both education and intermarriage.
What was the impact of President Obama signing an executive order (EO)) that created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)?
Prioritized deporting undocumented immigrants with violent criminal records rather than those brought to the US as children and thus raised in US society.
What is the Sunbelt?
An arc of states from California through Texas to Florida experiencing population and economic growth.
Define nativist backlashes.
Negative reactions against immigrants, often driven by fear or prejudice.
What is DACA?
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program protecting undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
Legislation that ended the national origin quotas that had been in place since the 1920s.
Define Hispanic.
Relating to Spanish-speaking countries, especially in Latin America.
Define Asian American.
An American of Asian descent.
Define Millennials.
The generation born between 1981 and 1996.
Define Gen Z.
The generation born between 1997 and 2012.
What is meant by undocumented immigrants?
Individuals residing in a country without legal permission.
What is the electoral college?
A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.