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Final Exam_History of the US after 1865

Final Exam_History of the US after 1865

Q How did the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 transform immigration into the United States?

Q How did participation in World War II affect the United States at home economically, politically, and socially?What strategies did the United States use during the Cold War to oppose the Soviet Union? How did African Americans and other minority groups fight for equal rights in the 1950s and 1960s? How was the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s through the 1970s a continuation of a struggle that began between with the end of the Civil War in 1865 and continued throughout the late 19th and early 20th century? In your answer, be sure to use specific historical examples and consider how the issues you are discussing changed over time.

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The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 was also known as Hart-Cellar Act. It abolished the quota system which was used earlier that was based on national origin and a new policy of immigration was created that was based on two things—reuniting families and skilled labor. This policy changed the immigration to the United States greatly changing the population as well which was now dominated by Asians, Africans, Latin Americans and not Europeans. Earlier immigrants were from European countries majorly but this policy changed that. Now immigrants to U.S was from Asia especially from countries where war was going like Vietnam and the population of Asians more than doubled in America. Then people immigrated from Cuba and other Eastern Europe countries that was torn from Cod War to America. As a result, more than 18 million immigrants came to U.S legally which did not happened in past thirty years.