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Eastern European Jewish Immigration
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immigration Act of 1882
Immigration Act / Chinese Exclusion Act
14 Apr 1882 Immigration Act of 1882 The legislation denied entry to “convicts, lunatics, idiots and person likely to become public charges. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 First U.S. policy that directly restricts immigrants by race or ethnicity. Caption: "And Still They Come" The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley [ Call No: No. 227:280-281] -
Alien Contract Labor Act
Alien Contract Labor Act
14 Apr 1885 Prohibits importation of contract laborThe legislation aimed to protect domestic labor forces from competition -
Bureau of Immigration Established
Bureau of Immigration Established
14 Apr 1891 After Civil War, states began passing individual immigration legislations. 1975 - U.S. Supreme Court ruled immigration as a federal responsibility Responsible for admitting, rejecting, and processing all immigrants seeking admission to the United States and for implementing national immigration policyCaption: "The Question of Immigration"NYT Historical Archives ( 1857-1922) Feb. 2nd 1891 -
immigration Act of 1903
Anarchists, Polygamists, Epileptics and Beggars excluded
14 Apr 1903 This law further tightens immigrationExpands Immigration Act of 1882 Partly in reaction to the Haymarket Square Bombings which were led by anarchists. -
The LIteracy Test
Literacy Test
14 Apr 1917 1917 Immigration Act Excludes "aliens over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who cannot read the English language, or some other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish." "The alien who conquers his thirty to forty words ... may import a household of illiterates. The literacy test is but a pretense. The labor organizations want to limit labor supply" -
Emergency Quota Act
Emergency Quota Act
14 Apr 1921 The act restricted immigration to 3% of each nationality that were present in 1910 Total annual ceiling of 165,000Important turning-point in American immigration policy because it imposed numerical limits on European immigration for the first time and established a nationality quota system.Source: Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX http://www.alamo.edu/pac/faculty/pmyers/hist1302/1302Theme4.htm -
Immigration Act of 1927
Immigration Ceiling
14 Apr 1927 The annual immigration ceiling is reduced to 150,000; The quota revised to 2 percent of of the 1920 census. This basic law remained in effect through 1965
