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Chinese Exclusion Act
Passed by Congress which provided a 10 year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration this was the first Federal law the was made for a certain ethnic working group.This made it hard for Chinese workers to enter the country and the preexisting chinese population in the US were to ever move out they had to get a certificate in order to reenter the US Congress refused State and Federal courts the rightget rid of the Chinese already in the US but they could get deported. -
Geary Act
An extension on the Chinese Exclusion Act which ended in 1892 this added resrtictions by requiring each Chinese residnet to have a certificate of residence or they would be deported. -
first movement
The first movement of blacks during WW1 where 454,000 blacks in the South moved North because in the North many jobs that needed workers due to the loss of 5 million men who went to serve. Some areas were so desperate for money that they paid blacks to migrate North -
second movement
The next wave of 800,000 blacks left the South and moved North. -
third movement
398,000 blacks in the South moved North. -
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movement of blacks
Over 3,348,000 moved from the South to Northern and Wesern cities. Blacks moved due to the oppressive conditions (lynching, unfair legal system, inequality in education, and denial of suffrage) of the South and also the increasing amounts of job opportunities in the North from the loss of 5 million men leaving to go serve. -
Congress repealed all exlusion acts.
Congrees repealed all exlusion acts. -
Immigration Act
National origin system, with various modifications, lasted until Congress passed the Immigration Act. -
limitations
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
The act allowed flexiblability to worldwide cap on family-based, employment-based, and diversity immigrant visas. The act further provides that visas for any single foreign state.