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Arriving in america
First set foot on U.S soil -
Change in Imigration
Immigration patterns changed dramatically because more immigrants came into the U.S from Eastern Eurpoe.
Back then the most immigrants came fromother European Countries.
Now the majority came from North and South America -
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Total Imigration to the U.S
End of the big increase due to the new comers from Southern and Eastern Europe (1800's - 1900's) -
New Wave of Immigrants
Between 1800's and 1880's more than 10 millioj immigrants came to the U.S. -
Exclusion Act
This act implied Chinese who had already left the country (U.S) to obtain certifications to re-enter. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion Act was passes by Congress & signed by President Chester. -
A difficult act
Act of "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese embloyed in mining" made it difficult for people to prove they were not laborers. -
Exclusion Expired
Exclusion Act expired but congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. -
Immigration Restriction League
Immigration Restriction League imposed a literacy test on all immigrants -
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The great migration
A movement of about 5 million southern blacks to the North and West -
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First Large Movement of Blacks
The first large movement of blacks occured during World War I. In the 1920's more tthan 800,000 blacks left the south fallowed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930's. -
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Another period of a large movement of Blacks
Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the South for Northern and Western cities. -
Immigration Act passed
Congress passed the Immigration act -
Entering the U.S
A limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the U.S -
Legal immigration
Provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965.