What was the Alien Act?

What will be an ideal response?


An act that increased waiting period to become a citizen from 5 years to 14 years. It allowed the president or any authority to deport or imprison any disloyal alien (illegal alien).

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The push factor that led to massive Irish immigration to the United States between 1845 and 1854 was __________.

a. famine b. economic opportunity c. religious persecution d. war

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How and why did the age of powerful empires evolved into a pattern of state-building?

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of these American presidents later pursued a Roosevelt-like policy of intervention in Latin America?

A) Ronald Reagan B) George Herbert Walker Bush C) George W. Bush D) All of the above.

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This man, an anti-slavery proponent in Kansas, maimed and killed men and boys with broadswords:

A. Preston Brooks. B. Anthony Butler. C. Charles Sumner. D. Henry Ward Beecher. E. John Brown.

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