Breanna Wesley History 1302- section313 February 11,2014 In 1898, the United States fought Spain in the Spanish American War. This war took place in 1898 and ended in 1901. The United States went to war against Spain because of longstanding foreign affairs interests as well as immediate domestic political events. From the early days of the Republic, North Americans politicians considered Cuba’s geographic position as vital to the United States. After the explosion of the USS Maine, the US public was whipped up into an anti-Spanish hysteria.
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In With Open Arms: Cuban Migration to the United States (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1988) Felix Masud-Piloto provides an overview of 20th century Cuban migration to the United States within the context of U.S.-Cuba relations and the Cold War. A comparative study that examines relations between Cubans, Blacks and new immigrants is Alex Stepick, This Land is Our Land: Immigrants and Power in Miami (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). As mentioned above, the large majority of Central Americans arrived in the United States during the1980s to escape war, political upheaval and economic insecurity in their respective countries. One of the first books to document the highly ambiguous legal status of Salvadoran immigrants living and working in the “margins” of American society was Sarah Mahler’s American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995). Cecilia Menjivar’s Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) challenges the conventional image of immigrant solidarity by showing how harsh economic
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They don’t have the economy we have or goods. This among the next few reasons is why we should allow immigration in the United States. Most immigrants don’t have great lives or like their home country and that’s why they want to come to America. They have to deal with wars and abundant spread of diseases without proper health care. Most of them have dictatorships and they don’t have the freedoms they deserve as human beings.
New York is in the Northeast part of United States of America. Cities usually go through a certain time line of development and expansions. The City of New York is an example of one of these cities. New York started out as a tiny Dutch City and grew into what it has become today; One of the most crowded and modernized cities in the world. Before the Dutch settled the city its first European founder was an Italian Captain Giovanni da Verrazzano who was a commissioned French explorer 1524.
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The United States took interest in this conflict and decided to provide the Cubans with materials to help them. But it wasn’t long for the United States to intervene in this battle, the “Demand for intervention escalated after February 15, 1898, when an explosion, probably accidental, a later investigation concluded, destroyed the American battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, with the loss of nearly 270 lives” (658). The explosion of the American battle ship was one of the main causes for the United States intervention “President McKinley in April asked congress for a declaration of war. The purpose, declared Senator Henry Teller of Colorado, was to aid Cuban patriots in their struggle for liberty and freedom”(659). While their second reason to aid the Cubans may sound as a big set up for the United States, they indeed help out the Cubans defeat the Spaniards.
As a person who came to America very little, it was hard to identify myself as who I was. I came into the United States when I was 6 months old, and my parents were just married. Going through elementary school and middle school it was hard for me to figure out who I was, or where I stand. I believe that people who move to the United States make an effort to integrate with the larger society. Having a group of people move to our country and isolate their selves really doesn't benefit us or them.