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Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. This act required the few nonlabors who sought entry to ovtain certifiction from the cheiese govenrment so they were qualifed to immigrate. -
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Chinese Immigration and Great Migration
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Chinese Exclusin Act Expired
When the Chinese Exclusin act expired, congress it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act mAde Permanent
The Chinese Exclusion Act was made permanent, with adding restictions by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certiticate of residence. If you didnt have the certificate, you were faced deportation. -
The Greay Act regulated Chinese immigration until the 1920s
The Greay Act regulated Chinese immigration until the 1920s. with increased postwar immigration, the congress adopted new means for regulation. The quotas and requirements pertaining to national origin. -
First Large Movement of Blacks
During World War I the first large movement of blacks occured. This was when 454,000 black southerners moved north. and in later 1920s another 800,000 blacks left the south. -
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Blacks Moving South
Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities. -
Congress Repealed all the Exclusion Acts
In 1943 Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese which gave foreign-born Cheiese to right to seek naturalization. -
Imigration Act
with various modifications it lastesd the congress until 1965 to pass the Imigration Act -
Immigration Act Effecive
170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States, with a maximum of 20,000 from any one country.