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Naturalization Act of 1790
Naturalization Law of 1790 First US law on immigration to United States creating a 2 year residency requirement as well as each immigrant must be a "free white person" and have "good moral character. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Alien and Sedition Acts These acts were signed into law by President Adams who fears war with France and that the immigrants in the US would sympathize with France. These laws allow the President to deport, and arrest aliens, as well as changed the residency requirements from 5 to 14 years. -
Naturalization Law of 1802
Naturalization Law of 1802 The Naturalization Law of 1802 revised the Naturalization law of 1798 passed by President Adams. It changed the years required for citizenship from 14 back to 5 years. This law was passed by who is often reffered to as Adams rival Thomas Jefferson. -
Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo
Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War but also granted 80,000 Mexicans living in Texas, California, and the Southwest citinzenship -
California Gold Rush
Gold Rush The discovery of gold in California caused thousands of people to not only move across the country but also thousands of immigrants to come into the country looking to hit it big in the way of gold mining. -
Homestead Act
Homestead Act The Homestead Act offered people land by the governement if they had neer bearn arms against the United States. So long as they had improved the land after 5 years they were given the title to the land. -
Naturalization Act of 1870
Naturalization Act of 1870 The Naturalization Act of 1870 expanded the rights to citizenship to whites and African-Americans but still restricted citizenship to Asian immigrants. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion ACt The Chinese Exclusion Act was created in order to stop the immigration to the United States by Chinese laborers who were beginning to dominate the work place. This law essentially ended Chinese immigration for 10 years -
Ellis Island Opens
Ellis Island Ellis Island would become the symbol of immigration to the United States, over 12 million people would come through this entry point over its frst 65 years. -
Geary Act
Geary Act The Geary Act continued the Chinese Exclusion ACt but also added that Chinese immigrants must always carry papers on them as well can not be witnesses in court. -
Naturalization Act of 1906
Naturalization Act 1906 The Naturalization Act of 1906 set the standards for Naturalization for the country, making it a requirement to have knowledge of the english language, as well as establishing the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization in the Commerce Department to control immigration. -
The Immigration Act of 1917
Immigration Act of 1917 The Immigration Act of 1917 was used to restrict the immigration from what was called the Asiatic Barred Zone. THe law stated that immigration was restricted in "Any country not owned by the U.S. adjacent to the continent of Asia." This law was passed to keep out undesirables from the United States -
Emergency Quota Act
Emergency Quota ACt The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 was passed because of negative wage effects on native born citizens, due to the flood of immigrants coming in. This law created a quota on how many immigrants of each country could come into the United States. Making it only 3% of the countries current population of that nationality. -
The Johnson-Reed Act
The Johnson-Reed Act The Johnson-Reed Act lowered the quota for European countries from 3% to 2%. The Johnson-Reed act also continued the exclusion of immigration from Asia, but also barred the immigration of wives of immigrants in the United States. -
Alien Registration Act
Alien Registration Act The Alien registration act requires all aliens over the age of 14 living in the United States to go through registration and fingerprinting in order to have them in the United States system.
