-
The importation of slaves is banned in the United States.
-
The potato famine in Ireland caused a shortage of food and an increase in the immigration of Irish people to America.
-
During the congress elections of 1854, many people from the Knownothing party were elected. They supported the idea of restricting immigration.
-
This act was to limit immigration by Chinese railroad workers.
-
The Homestead Act provided for places of residence for the poor and the immigrants. One had to move to a piece of land, live there for five years and improve it. The land was free or very cheap. It brought a whole new wave of immigrants to the United States.
-
The transcontinental railroad was built mostly by Chinese and Irish immigrants.
-
This act made it so no Chinese immigrants were allowed to enter America. It was enforced for ten years.
-
This act made immigrants pay fifty cents per person. Several groups were deemed inelegible and no lunitics were allowed into the country.
-
The Statue of Liberty is finished and unvailed to the public.
-
Immigrants that the workers at Angel and Ellis Island deemed anarchists were stopped and sent back to their country.
-
All American women that married immigrants lost their citizenship to help prevent immigrants becoming citizens.
-
This act added the literary requirement to immigrate into the United States.
-
People in the United States territory of Puerto Rico who wanted to be citizens had to join the militarty.
-
This act limited immigration to three percent of what it was during 1920.
-
People recognize this act as the green card legislation.
-
This created a preference system for immigrants. It gave the priority to those with family members already in America and to those with specific skill, such as scientists.
-
This added new restrictions on immigration from Mexico.
-
This made it illegal to hire an illegal alien in the United States.
-
This strengthened border enforcement. It also stated that if someone wasn't a citizen, then they didn't recieve benefits.
-
Due to 9/11, restrictions were added on immigration fromeverywhere. It created a Department of Homeland Security adn increased border control. It also made it a requirment to have one's passport machine readable.
-
This rquires standardized ID cards or state driver's liscences for citizen identification.
-
This criminalizes being and illegal alien in Arizona, and makes it so the Arizona police force is responsible for enforcing this law.
Want to make a timeline like this?
Use Timetoast to turn dates, events, milestones, and phases into a clear visual timeline you can build and share. Timetoast is a timeline maker for work, school, research, and stories.