Chinese immigration and to America late 1800

By Bellacappo

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act was passed providing 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.

  • New wave of US imagration

    12 million imagrants between 1891-1910. The increas was so great that 60% of the people living in the nations 12th largest cities werre foreignborn or had foriegnborn parents.

  • Ellis Island

    US opens processing station. served as immigration..

  • Angle Island

    Angle Island Processes new Asian New commers, Chines applicants faced strict imagration,

  • Great Migration

    1915-1930, Coused by the labor shortges of world war one, Job opps and higher wages brought about the huge pop shift.

  • Migration of south Africa

    Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities. The reason for migration was because the desire to escape from harsh economic comdtions and to have greater success in the north.

  • Congress repealed all exclusiont act

    Congress denied all exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization.