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n the words of Arthur Mann, late eighteenth-century Americans could not claim “an ancestral land, a long history, an old folklore, a common church, or the same progenitors” (quoted in Jon Gjerde, ... ed., Major Problems in American Immigraton History, 1st ed., 92). In the early years of the republic, different people had very different ideas about what it meant to be an American. How did these ethnically diverse Americans forge a natonal identty in the late eighteenth century? How did the Consttuton and Naturalizaton Act of 1790 legally defne who was included in citzenship and set the stage for U.S. race/ethnic relatons in the nineteenth century? [Show More]

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