in-re-Ah-Yup
10 years after the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Ah Yup, a native of China, petitioned to become a citizen
Category: Colonization
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No Gun RI Massacre
Recently declassified documents of the United States military were released to the Associated Press in September of 1999, which detailed one of the deadliest US
Page Act
Summary This law prohibited the immigration of Chinese women and further East Asian women into the United States for the purpose of “unfree labor or
Onipaʻa Event at ʻIolani Palace
In protest of 100 years under occupation by the American Government, Native Hawaiians gathered at ʻIolani Palace during an Onipaʻan event giving speeches, playing music,
Julian calendar : Precursor to the Gregorian Calendar
Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar as a reform of the Roman calendar, which was based on the lunar cycle. It was established in 45
President Woodrow Wilson signs the Jones-Shafroth Act, making Puerto Rico a U.S. territory
President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act (1917) on March 2, 1917, giving Puerto Ricans U.S. statutory citizenship. This act also separated Puerto Rico’s government into Executive,
Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló Resigns After Massive Protests
Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans filled miles of a major highway in San Juan in protest against Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló, who has resisted
Pueblo Revolt
The first and largest Indigenous uprising in so called North America. “The Pueblo people orchestrated the unthinkable: a pan-Indian uprising successfully expelling the Spanish occupiers
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
Dogeaters, a novel by author Jessica Hagedorn, was published in March 1990. Winner of an American Book Award and nominated for the National Book Award,
Illegal Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
In the nineteenth century, the Hawaiian Kingdom existed as an independent country recognized as such by the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and
A Portuguese ship, the São João Bautista brought captive Africans from Angola to the American colonies.
Sometime in 1619 enslaved Africans arrive near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia from the Portuguese colony port city of
1811 Slave Revolt Louisiana German Coast – Jan 8-10
The 1811 German Coast uprising was a revolt of black slaves in parts of the Territory of Orleans on January 8–10, 1811. The uprising occurred
