For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the city of Chicago was one of the most desirable destinations for immigrants.
Read the full storyThe term Chicano is a politicocultural indicator of one’s identification as a pure-blood or mestizo (mixed race) descendant of the native peoples of the old Aztec homeland of Aztlán.
Read the full storyThe earliest migration of Chileans to the north came during the California gold rush of 1848–49, when some 7,000 immigrated to the United States, with most settling in San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties.
Read the full storyThe Chinese Exclusion Act was the first measure to specifically exclude an ethnic group from immigrating to the United States.
Read the full storyThe Chinese were the first large Asian group to settle in both the United States and Canada and proved integral to the economic development of the North American west.
Read the full storyIncorporating recommendations from the Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration (1884–85), the Chinese Immigration Act was the first Canadian legislation to formally limit immigration based on race.
Read the full storyThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal to discriminate in employment or the use of public facilities on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.
Read the full storyThe Coast Guard is the part of the U.S. Armed Forces responsible for enforcing maritime laws, search-and-rescue operations at sea, interdictment of drugs and illegal aliens, protection of the marine environment, and protection of maritime borders.
Read the full storyJean-Baptiste Colbert was a member of the Great Council of State and the French king Louis XIV’s intendant de finance (superintendant of finance).
Read the full storyThe period of intense political and ideological struggle between democratic countries led by the United States and the Soviet Union (1945–91) and its communist satellites is often referred to as the cold war.
Read the full storyThe Colombian community in the United States is ethnically diverse and forms the largest immigrant group from South America.
Read the full storySailing for Spain during four voyages between 1492 and 1504, Christopher Columbus laid the foundation for an extensive Spanish empire in North, Central, and South America and eventually the Europeanization of the Western Hemisphere.
Read the full storyThe Compagnie de la Nouvelle France was a commercial company organized in 1627 by the government of France as a means of aggressively colonizing New France.
Read the full storyCroatians were the earliest south Slavic group to settle in North America in significant numbers. In the U.S. census of 2000 and the Canadian census of 2001, 374,241 Americans and 97,050 Canadians claimed Croatian descent.
Read the full storyCubans are usually considered to be the most successful Hispanic immigrant group, with educational and economic profiles near those of the U.S. population as a whole.
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