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James Town Settlement
First permanent English colony built in Jameston, Virginia. -
Virginia's first Africans arrived.
First African Americans arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, as indentured servants. -
Mayflower
The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England with 102 immigrants. -
Native American reservation
The U.S. forms the first Native American reservation and polocy of dealing with each tribe on their own. -
Federal Government
The Federal Government requires 2 years of residency for naturalization. -
The Naturalization Act
The Act was passed by the United States Congress. It was increased the period necessary for imigrants to become naturalized. -
Bans
Congress bans importation of slaves -
Potato Crop
Crops began to fail in Ireland which caused the Potato Famine. It killed one million and made almost 500,000 to immigrate to America. -
Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush caused the first mass imigration China -
California Senate
The committee took a deeper look into the " social, moral, and political effect of Chinese imiggration ". -
Italy's economy
The economy was troubled, crops have failed, and the climate were the leading causes of mass imigration with almost 4 million Italian Immigrants. -
Jones Act
Cuban & Puerto Rican grants U.S. citizenship to island inhabitants. U.S. citizens can travel freely between the mainland and the island without a passport. -
World War I
The U.S. enters World War I and anti-German sentiment swells at home. The names of schools, foods, streets, towns, and even some families, are changed to sound less Germanic. -
Immigration Act
Immigration Act of 1924 establishes fixed quotas of national origin and eliminates Far East immigration. -
" Freedom Flight "
“Freedom flight” airlifts begin for Cuban refugees assisting more than 260,000 people over the next eight years.
