As of 1990, an estimated 1.93 million people in the United States spoke the French language at home. The influence of French is also apparent in American English. For example, since French explorers often served as guides for other settlers after the United States purchased the Louisiana Territor...
ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury.This law abopshed special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community.In the landmark 1975 decision Taylor v.Louisiana,the Supreme Court extended the ...
In 1803 the United States bought the land, which spread from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, from France for $15 million in the Louisiana Purchase. There are many other place names in the United States that tell the tale of French influence and settlement. The state of Maine...
Other images were taken to aid abolitionist causes and sold to support the education of newly freed people; for example, the carte de visite entitled Wilson Chinn, a Branded Slave from Louisiana depicts a man wearing a spiked neck collar, ankle chains, and an iron leg brace. While th...
Orleanscosts as much as 20% morethan anywhere else in the state. Louisiana hasa lot of oil refining, so gas doesn't need to travel as far to be sold, making fuel priceslower than the national average. When crude oil doesn'tneed to travel long distances, the markup for gas is much ...
I will argue that Asian Americans attend college due to their cultural roots and familial expectations. Along the way to success are some hardships like stereotypes, gender differences and economic difficulties, but there is also prosperity in means of cultural and familial involvement. Compared to ...
When people hear that it is illegal to sell floral arrangements in Louisiana without government permission, or that you can go to jail for practicing interior design without a license in Florida, or that Utah requires more training to braid hair than to practice law, they tend ...
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The relationship between Vietnam and the United States is the major political issue for most Vietnamese Americans, and it is a highly divisive one. Some Vietnamese Americans favor closer relations to Vietnam, feeling that this will lead to greater prosperity for their parent country and contribu...
with prosperity emerging in Spain, the numbers declined to about 3,000 per year. Europe enjoyed an economic boom in the 1980s, and the total number of Spanish immigrants for the ten years dropped to only 15,000. The 1990 U.S. census recorded 76,000 foreign-born Spaniards in the country...