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This act made it so that to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, you needed a two year residency, to be a "free white person" of "good moral character".
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Required 5 years of residency, and the citizen to renounce their allegiance to their former country.
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The importation of slaves was banned in the US.
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The shortage of potatoes caused a surge of Irish immigrants to America, looking for a new place to start their lives over.
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This treaty ended the Mexican-American War, and thus offered citizenship to over 70,000 Mexican citizens.
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Gave immigrants the opportunity to live on and take care of a piece of land for a minimum of 5 years, with the goal of improving the land. This brought in a huge influx of immigrants from Europe looking for their own land.
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This act limited the immigration of Chinese railroad workers.
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Prohibited the immigration of all Chinese Laborers.
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This act added the literacy requirements to apply for citizenship.
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Made it so that American women who married immigrants would lose their citizenship. This prevented immigrants from becoming citizens.
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First time aliens in the US are required to register and recieve a receipt stating they're in the US legally. This was the predessesor to the "green card". (Formally known as the Smith Act)
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This made it illegal to hire an illegal alien in the US.
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This act putting greater emphasis on border control in the US, making it harder for immigrants to gain asylum. This also established required income for those sponsering illegal immigrants.
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Following the 9/11 tragedy, this act made immigration and citizen ship under the jurstiction of the department of homeland security. This also made it so that passports had to be machine-readable.
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Criminalized being an illegal alien in Arizona, and gave Arizona law enforcement the power to enfore this law.
