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Limitation of Chinese Immigration
Advocates of immigration restriction succeeded in introducing and passing legislation in Congress to limit the number of Chinese arriving to fifteen per ship or vessel. -
Diplomat appoint for treaty signing
the Hayes Administration appointed U.S. diplomat James B. Angell to negotiate a new treaty with China. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
The Geary Act
When the exclusion act expired in 1892, Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. -
CHinese Exclusion Act renewed
Congress voted to renew exclusion for ten years in the Geary Act. -
Chinese Boycotting
Merchants responded to the humiliation of the exclusion acts by organizing an anti-American boycott. -
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The Great Migration
movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities. -
Wartime Riot
White rioters rampaged through African American neighborhoods, leaving at least 39 dead. -
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Second Great Migration
the migration of more than five million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West; it was much larger and of a different character than the first Great Migration. -
repeals all exlussion acts
Congress leaves a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign born Chinese the right to seek naturalization. -
Immigration Act
a limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States, with a maximum of 20,000 from any one country. -
The Immigration Act of 1990
The act established a “flexible” worldwide cap on family-based, employment-based, and diversity immigrant visas.