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Start of Mass Migration to the New World
The most recent era of mass voluntary migration was between 1850 and 1914. Over one million people a year were drawn to the new world by the turn of the 20th century. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act preventing Chinese laborers from coming to the United States for ten years, and later the act was amended to prohibit virtually all Chinese immigration, a situation that lasted until the mid-1900s. -
Gentleman's Agreement
Japanese immigration was restricted by the 1907 Gentleman's Agreement between the government of Japan and the United States -
End of heigh of Mass Migration to the New World
The most recent era of mass voluntary migration was between 1850 and 1914. Over one million people a year were drawn to the new world by the turn of the 20th century. -
Palmer Raids
In 1919 and 1920, then-US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer instigated numerous roundups of immigrants, labeled "Palmer's Raids," that led to the deportation of thousands of people, on the basis that they were Communist agitators. -
Immigration Act of 1924
The act banned all Asians from migrating to America and nullified the Gentlemen's Agreement