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The country was named after another explorer Amerigo Vespucci
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In 1492, a Spanish-based transatlantic maritime expedition led by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus encountered the Americas, continents which were completely unknown in Europe, Asia and Africa and were outside the Old World political and economic system. The four voyages of Columbus began the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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The first US city was Saint Augustine in Florida
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Located in Florida, St. Augustine is considered the docking place of the first European explorer (Spanish), and as the oldest city in the United States.
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In 1603, Pierre Du Gua de Monts received the privilege of trading in Acadia, in Canada and elsewhere in New France. The following year he chartered ships to the St. Lawrence River. In the spring of 1605, de Monts went in search of a more welcoming place for his colony. After heading south, he noted the hostility of the Amerindians to return north to explore the Bay of Fundy. On July 27, 1605, his group settled in Port Royal, in the Annapolis River Valley.
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Jamestown is the first English colony
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Sponsored by King Henry IV, Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec City on July 3
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The Pilgrim Fathers are one of the first groups of British settlers settled after crossing the Mayflower on the territory of the future United States of America.
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Georgia is the last of the thirteen colonies established by the Kingdom of Great Britain on the territory that will become the United States
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The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, is a political text by which the thirteen British colonies of North America seceded from Great Britain on July 4, 1776, to form the United States.
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From eastern and southern Europe; more 2 million jews come to america to escape the slaughter, persecutions...
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The new structure on Ellis Island, built of "Georgia pine" opened on January 1, 1892. Annie Moore, a teenaged Irish girl, accompanied by her two brothers, entered history and a new country as she was the very first immigrant to be processed at Ellis Island.
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The Immigration Act of 1906 introduces a more restrictive immigration policy, broadening the categories of rejected immigrants.
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Quota law are a restriction to mass immigration
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End of WWII acceptance of many political refugees escaping from communism
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Ellis Island closed on November 12, 1954, with the departure of its last detainee, Norwegian merchant seaman Arne Peterssen.
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Political and humanitarian raisons, Asians
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End of Wasps priority, end of this preferential treatment, family reunification
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Increase in the number of south American and African immigrants
Wars, political and unrests crisis
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IRCA or the Simpson–Mazzoli Act was passed by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986.
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Bush, increased legal immigration by 40%
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Clinton, increased the deportation of immigrants
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On 11 September 2001, Islamist extremists hijacked four planes that were flying above the US. Two of them were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
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It requires the AG to establish a database with the arrival and departure data from machine-readable travel and entry documents issued to aliens and to make interoperable all security databases relevant to making admissibility determinations.
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Introduction of « the comprehensive immigration Act »
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The Secure Fence Act of 2006, is an act of the United States Congress which authorized and partially funded the construction of 700 miles (1,125 km) of fencing along the Mexican border.
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an American immigration policy that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States after being brought to the country as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit in the U.S.
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Trump sign the « Border Security and immigration Enforcement Improvements »;
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