Rhode Island colony

Revolutions of 1848

Throughout 1848, a series of liberal revolutions swept across most of western and central Europe, offering the promise of greater political and religious freedoms.

Religion and immigration

Refugee status

A refugee is a special category of immigrant not subject to regular immigration quotas.

Refugee Relief Act (United States) (1953)

Enacted on August 7, 1953, the Refugee Relief Act (RRA) authorized the granting of 205,000 special nonquota visas apportioned to individuals in three classes, along with accompanying members of their immediate family...

Refugee Act (United States) (1980)

The Refugee Act of 1980 formed the basis of refugee policy in the United States until 1996.

Red River colony

The Red River colony, established by THOMAS DOUGLAS, Lord Selkirk, in 1812, was the first farming settlement in western British North America.

Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1552–1618)

Although a man of many accomplishments, Sir Walter Raleigh is best known as an explorer and the founder of Roanoke colony (1585), England’s first colonial settlement in the Americas.

Railways and immigration

Railways were integral to immigration in several ways.

Quebec Act (1774)

The Quebec Act of 1774 was passed by Great Britain on the heels of a constitutional crisis in Massachusetts and the failure of attempts to attract English-speaking immigrants to Quebec, the French culture region they had acquired at the end of the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763).

Quebec

The Canadian province of Quebec is unique in North America in maintaining a predominantly French heritage, despite being surrounded by English-speaking areas that would eventually become the Canadian provinces of Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and the U.S. states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York.

Quaker immigration

The Quakers, officially members of the Religious Society of Friends, were a pietistic Christian sect founded by George Fox in England in the 1640s.

Puerto Rican immigration

Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island commonwealth of the United States, located about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami.

Proposition 187 (Save Our State Initiative)

Proposition 187 was a controversial California anti-immigration initiative approved by California voters on November 8, 1994.

Prince Edward Island

Ile-St.-Jean (Isle St. John) was claimed for France by SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN in 1603.