The imperial race and the immigration sieve: The Canadian debate on assisted British migration and empire settlement, 1900–30During the 1920s assisted migration from Britain sparked a complex and often bitter debate in Canada. It had long been held that migrants who required assistance were highly...
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Yes, the US economy did grow rapidly between 1870 and 1913, but mostly thanks to high levels of immigration that fed rapid industrialization. It was also a time when the country was wracked by extreme inequality and widespread unrest—tariffs being a very regressive tax that hits harder the le...
[121] British immigration to the Cape Colony began to rise after 1820, and pushed thousands of Boers, resentful of British rule, northwards to found their own—mostly short-lived—independent republics, during the Great Trek of the late 1830s and early 1840s.[122] In the process the ...
The progress of the Cape towards self-government took a course similar to that of British colonies of conquest and settlement elsewhere. As in French Canada, a governor with arbitrary power replaced the military rule of the conquest era. As in New South Wales, the Governor was provided in due...
In fact Texas had nearly no Anglophone settlers until after Mexican independence in 1821, when the new nation encouraged the immigration of Americans to help populate the sparsely settled province. Nor does the immolation of a batch of biscuits account for their new name. It was indeed Josiah Be...
What role did immigration play in the Second Industrial Revolution? How did mercantilism affect the colonies? What was one long lasting effect of the British Empire? How did the Canadian Bill of Rights affect Canada? What was an economic result of the Columbian Exchange? What ...
(ImmigrationhasbeenakeyfactorinboostingtheUK’spopulation) * UnevenpopulationdistributionintheUK: urban:90%;rural:10% English(81.5%);theScottish(9.6%);theWelsh(1.9%);theIrish(2.4%);theNorthernIrish(1.8%);otherpeoples(2.8%) OriginsofBritishPeople ...
May, 59, is the UK's second female Prime Minister after Margaret Thatcher, who was in office from 1979 to 1990. Theresa May is also Britain's 14th unelected Prime Minister since 1900. She assumed the leadership of the Conservative Party on Monday after her sole contender,...