History of the United States II / Unit 16 USH2 2272 short lesson, about 20 seconds
New Immigrants
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The idea
Immigration reshaped the country in these decades: more than one hundred thousand Cubans reached Florida in nineteen eighty alone in the Mariel Boatlift, the Yawp records.
In practice
Refugees from Central America's wars arriving, and in the nineteen nineties immigrants settling across the American South.
Where people slip
The anchor does not carry these patterns; the Yawp does.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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