Evolution of Citizenship

By TrenTTaylor02

  • Naturalization Act of 1790

    Allowed for people who had lived in the United States for 2 years and in their current residence for 1 year to apply for citizenship so long as that they were white and of good moral character
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    Evolution of the National Citzenry

  • Naturalization Act of 1795

    Increased the requirement from living in the U.S from 2 years to 5 years

  • 14th Amendment

    Expanded citzenship to anyone who is born or naturalized in the United States.

  • Naturalization Act of 1870

    Natualization rights to Africans but denied rights to asians

  • Page Act

    Barred immigrants that were considered undesireable, defined as any person from East Asia that was coming to the U.S to be a forced laborer, prostitute, or someone considered a criminal in their previous country

  • Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

    Limited chinese immigration by banning the immigration of chinese laborers for ten years

  • Geary Act

    Expanded Chinese Exlcusion Act by another ten years, act was further expanded with no end date in 1902

  • Jones Shafroth Act

    Gave puerto ricans granted U.S citzenship

  • Emergency Quota Act

    Established national immigration quotas limiting immigration from the Eastern Hemisphere

  • Indian Citzenship Act

    Native Americans born in the U.S were given US citizenship

  • Immigration Act of 1924

    Act set national quotas as a fraction of 150,000 in proportion to the national origins of the entire White American population as of the 1920 census

  • Luce-Celler Act

    ended discrimination against Filipino Americans and Indian Americans, who were accorded the right to naturalization, and allowed a quota of 100 immigrants per year

  • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

    Revised the National Origins Formula, again allotting quotas in proportion to the national origins of the population as of the 1920 census, but by a simplified calculation taking a flat one-sixth of 1 percent of the number of inhabitants of each nationality then residing in the U.S.

  • Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965

    abolished the system of national-origin quotas

  • Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

    US Citizenship given to individuals that had resided in the United States before January 1, 1982. This act also put in place, that employers could not knowingly hire anyone that is not authorized to work in the US.