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Immigration into United States started
Between 1800 and 1880 more than 10 million people immigrated into United States. -
Chinese Exckusion Act
In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur.This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. For the first time, Federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities. The Chinese Exclusion Act required the few nonlaborers who sought entry to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immig -
Exclusion act expired
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Parlament added restrictions
This extension, 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. -
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World War I
The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north. - See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/great-migration-1915-1960#sthash.9vRq9Eii.dpuf -
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Great Migration
The economic motivations for migration were a combination of the desire to escape oppressive economic conditions in the south and the promise of greater prosperity in the north. Since their Emancipation from slavery, southern rural blacks had suffered in a plantation economy that offered little chance of advancement. While a few blacks were lucky enough to purchase land, most were sharecroppers, tenant farmers, or farm labors, barely subsiding from year to year. When World War I created a hug -
Espionage Act
To silence opponents of the war, Congress passed the Espionage Act in June 1917 and the Sadition Act a year later. These measures outlawed acts of treason and made it a crime to "utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal... or abusive language" criticizing the government, the flag, or the military. -
The Geary Act regulated Chinese immigration until the 1920s
With increased postwar immigration, Congress adopted new means for regulation: quotas and requirements pertaining to national origin. By this time, anti-Chinese agitation had quieted. -
People migrated
In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south, followed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930s. Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities.
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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. -
People could enter the United States
Effective 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. -
The Immigration Act
The Immigration Act of 1990 provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965. The act established a “flexible” worldwide cap on family-based, employment-based, and diversity immigrant visas. The act further provides that visas for any single foreign state in these categories may not exceed 7 percent of the total available.