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Discovered by Christopher Columbus
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A ship carrying 20 enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia
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Most colonists consider themselves Britans, but Paine makes the case for a new American.
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allows any free white person of “good character,” who has been living in the United States for two years or longer to apply for citizenship.
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The federal government requires two years of residency for naturalization.
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The first U.S. census happens. The English are the largest ethnic group among the 3.9 million people counted. However nearly one in five Americans are of African heritage.
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which requires better conditions on ships arriving to the country. The Act also calls for ship captains to submit demographic information on passengers, creating the first federal records on the ethnic composition of immigrants to the United States.
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the Know-Nothing Party forms, as a backlash to the increasing number of German and Irish immigrants settling in the United States.
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The Civil Rights Act declares that all people born in the U.S. are citizens, with the exception of Indians not taxed.
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Following the Civil War, some states passed their own immigration laws. In 1875 the Supreme Court declares that it’s the responsibility of the federal government to make and enforce immigration laws.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act passes which bars Chinese immigrants from entering the United States.
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Between 1880 and 1920 Nearly 20 million immigrant's arrive. The majority are from southern, eastern, and central Europe, including 4 million Italians and 2 million jews.
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Created exclusions of who can enter the US
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the United States’ first immigration station, opens in New York Harbor.
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establishes that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen by birth, regardless of race or parents' status.
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U.S. immigration peaks, with 1.3 million people entering the country through Ellis Island alone.
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Japan agrees to limit Japanese emigration to the United States .In return, President Theodore Roosevelt urges San Francisco to end the segregation of Japanese students from white students in San Francisco schools.
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Sets a literacy requirement to enter the country. Halts lots of Asian immigration
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illegal immigration to the United States increases. The U.S. Border Patrol is created to slow down illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican and Canadian borders into the United States.
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Limits the total number of immigrants allowed in yearly
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The Immigration and Naturalization Service is created to consolidate federal immigration and naturalization functions.
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allows Mexican agricultural workers to enter the United States temporarily
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ends the exclusion of Asian immigrants to the United States.
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About 14,000 unaccompanied children flee Fidel Castro and Cuba to the United States as part of a secret program
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The Act ends the national origin quotas enacted in the 1920s which favored some racial and ethnic groups over others.
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about 125,000 Cubans refuges cross the sea seeking political asylum
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grants amnesty to more than 3 million immigrants living illegally in the United States.
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allows some aliens to legalize there residence in the US