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The law defined "immediate relatives" as children and spouses of United States citizens as well as parents of United States citizens who are 21 years of age or older. [13] It also defined "special immigrants" in six different categories, which includes: An immigrant who traveled abroad for a short period of time (i.e., a "Returning Resident"); [13]
An override vote was held in the House of Representatives on June 11, 2015, achieving the three-fifths majority required by a margin of 69–41. As a result, the measure became law in North Carolina, which is just the second state after Utah to allow for this sort of religious exemption for state magistrates. [47]
b ^ While all Native Americans in the United States were only counted as part of the (total) U.S. population since 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau previously either enumerated or made estimates of the non-taxed Native American population (which was not counted as a part of the U.S. population before 1890) for the 1860–1880 time period.
[2] [3] The term came to be associated with laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, which were known as anti-miscegenation laws. [4] These laws were overruled federally in 1967 , and by the year 2000, all states had removed them from their laws, with Alabama being the last to do so on November 7, 2000.
They comprised 83.5% of the white population at the time of the first census in 1790. [18] From 1700 to 1775, between 350,000 and 500,000 Europeans immigrated: estimates vary in sources. Regarding English settlers of the 18th century, one source says 52,000 English migrated during the period of 1701 to 1775, although this figure is likely too low.
Three families who actually lived in North Carolina had South Carolina addresses, and 16 South Carolina residents had believed they lived in North Carolina. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] On December 9, 2016, McCrory announced that he signed a four-page executive order formally defining the border between the two states based on the 20 years of work.
There was a significant human cost attached to this period of economic growth, [65] as American industry had the highest rate of accidents in the world. [66] In 1889, railroads employed 704,000 men, of whom 20,000 were injured and 1,972 were killed on the job. [ 67 ]
Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History. OCLC 46398241. Powell, William S. (1976). The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807812471. Powell, William S. (1977). When the Past Refused to Die: A History of Caswell County, North Carolina, 1777 ...