The AFL-CIO is the largest labor organization in the United States, comprising some 66 self-governing national and international labor unions with a total membership of 13 million workers (2002).
Read the full storyPassed by the California legislature in 1913, the Alien Land Act prohibited noncitizens from owning land in California.
Read the full storyDesigned to support the Canadian policy of preferring agriculturalists to all other immigrants, this measure made it illegal to contract and import foreign laborers.
Read the full storyReflecting a growing concern about the effects of organized labor, Congress enacted the Alien Contract Labor Act, also known as the Foran Act, on February 26, 1885.
Read the full storyThe Alien and Sedition Acts is the collective name given to four laws enacted by the U.S. Congress in the midst of its undeclared naval war with France known as the Quasi War (1798–1800).
Read the full storyAlbanians began immigrating to North America in significant numbers around 1900, though thousands returned to their homeland after World War I (1914–18).
Read the full storySamuel P. Aheong became one of the most influential Christian missionaries in Hawaii, encouraging the local Christian community to embrace newly arriving Chinese immigrants.
Read the full storyThroughout most of America’s history, Americans of African descent were its largest minority group.
Read the full storyOne of the most influential advocates of social justice for immigrants, minorities, and the poor, Jane Addams attempted to reconcile human needs to the demands of modern industrial urban life.
Read the full storyAcadia is the region of North America bounded by the St. Lawrence Seaway on the north, the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the east, and the Atlantic Ocean on the south.
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