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Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act required the few nonlaborers who sought entry to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immigrate. But this group found it increasingly difficult to prove that they were not laborers because the 1882 act defined excludables as “skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining.” Thus very few Chinese could enter the country under the 1882 law. -
The Exclusion act expired
When the exclusion act expired in 1892, made permanent in 1902, added restrictions by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, she or he faced deportation. -
The first lardge movment of blacks
The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north. -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960 -
800,000 blacks left the south
In the 1920s, 800,000 blacks left the south, -
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over 3,348,000 left the 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Congress repealed all the exclusion acts
In 1943 Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization. The so-called national origin system, with various modifications, lasted until Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1965. -
Congress passed the immigration act
lasted until Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1965. -
Immigrants entered the United States
July 1, 1968, 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. Skill and the need for political asylum determined admission.