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Nationality Act of 1790
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Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
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Ban on "importation" of "any negro, mulatto, or any person of colour" (effective 1808)
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Indian Removal Act
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Treaty of Guadlupe Hidalgo
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Passenger Cases
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People V. Hall- denied Chinese, Native, and African Americans the status to testify in courts against whites.
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Dred Scott V. Sanford
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Lincoln's Administration took legal position that free blacks were American citizens.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Immigration Act of 1864
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End of Civil War when Confederate states had "black codes"
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Congress Passed the Civil Rights Act. (Declared all persons born or naturalized in the US were citizens of the United States and state in which they lived, therefore affirming a rule of citizenship by birth that didn't depend on race.
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Burlington Treaty of 1868 14th Amendment
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Naturalization Act
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Chinese Educational Mission (1872-1881)
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Page Law Chy Lung V Freeman
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Angell Treaty of 1880 Chinese Exclusion Act
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Immigration Act
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Elk v. Wilkins
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Foran Act of 1885 (also known as Alien Contract Labor Law)
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The Dawes Allotment Act
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Scott Act of 1888
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Chae Chan Ping v. United States ( also known as the Chinese Exclusion Case)
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Immigration Bureau established the Immigration Act of 1891
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Geary Act Fong Yue Ting v. United States
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Immigration Restriction League
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Wong Wing v. United States Plessy v. Ferguson
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark
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Immigration Act of 1903
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Extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act
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Anti-American Boycott
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Expatriation Act of 1907 Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907-1908