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the Chinese Exclusion Act
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. -
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Chinese immigration and African-American emigration timeline
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Geary Act began
When the exclusion act expired in 1892, Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. -
The effect of the Geary Act
Chinese resident had to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, she or he faced deportation -
The Northern Demand
The northern demand for workers was a result of the loss of 5 million men who left to serve in the armed forces, as well as the restriction of foreign immigration. -
The Great Migration begins
the great migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west -
During the 1920's
In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south, -
During the 1930's
398,000 black people left the south -
A Yearly Limit
Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization. -
Immigration Act
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. -
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.