It was a six months trip across 2000 miles
After a bill is submitted it is assigned to a specialized committee which is in charge of debating its content. If the bill is passed by the committee, it will go to the Senate for a hearing. If it gets the necessary votes and is passed by the Senate, it will then be passed to the House of Representatives for the same process to executed. After both Houses pass it, it is submitted to the President's bureau in order to get the approval and signature from the President and be turned into a Law.
Right now, I would call them "diaspora" if they're more dispersed (Armenian diaspora is quite well-known) or a "community", for example "French community" if they're more closely in contact.
If they reject their new land's law and intend to include this land into their old one, they could be "colonizers".
Because there main product/export was cotton, so therefore it influenced them the most on the fact that they made more money.
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