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  2. British Americans - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00254-7. Shepperson, Wilbur S. British emigration to North America: projects and opinions in the early Victorian period (1957), examines opinion in Britain. online; Tennenhouse, Leonard. The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and ...

  3. Nationality law in the American Colonies - Wikipedia

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    Nationality law in the American colonies preceding the Articles of Confederation was a decentralized early attempt to develop the concept of citizenship among colonial settlers with respect to the major colonial powers of the period. Precedent was largely based on English common law, with jurisdictional discretion afforded to each of the ...

  4. English Americans - Wikipedia

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    English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.In the 2020 United States census, English Americans were the largest group in the United States with 46.6 million Americans self-identifying as having some English origins (many combined with another heritage) representing (19.8%) of the White American population.

  5. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    Germans were significant settlers in Minnesota, with communities established in cities like Minneapolis and St. Paul. By 1860, Minnesota had a notable German-American population, contributing to the state's development and growth. Between 1820 and 1930, 3.5 million British and 4.5 million Irish entered America.

  6. Naturalization Act of 1790 - Wikipedia

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    In reading the Naturalization Act, the courts also associated whiteness with Christianity and thus excluded Muslim immigrants from citizenship until the decision Ex Parte Mohriez recognized citizenship for a Saudi Muslim man in 1944. [5] Congress modeled the act on the Plantation Act 1740 of the British Parliament (13 Geo. 2. c.

  7. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The British economy had begun to grow rapidly at the end of the 17th century and, by the mid-18th century, small factories in Britain were producing much more than the nation could consume. Britain found a market for their goods in the British colonies of North America, increasing her exports to that region by 360% between 1740 and 1770.

  8. List of former United States citizens who relinquished their ...

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    The column U.S. Citizenship indicates how the person original ascertained US citizenship. Jus soli ("right of the soil") is citizenship by birth in the United States, whereas jus sanguinis ("right of blood") here refers to citizenship through birth abroad to an American parent.

  9. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (the McCarran–Walter Act) revised the National Origins Formula, again allotting quotas in proportion to the national origins of the population as of the 1920 census, but by a simplified calculation taking a flat one-sixth of 1 percent of the number of inhabitants of each nationality then residing in ...