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First permanent English colony built in Jameston, Virginia.
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First African Americans arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, as indentured servants.
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The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England with 102 immigrants.
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The U.S. forms the first Native American reservation and polocy of dealing with each tribe on their own.
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The Federal Government requires 2 years of residency for naturalization.
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The Act was passed by the United States Congress. It was increased the period necessary for imigrants to become naturalized.
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Congress bans importation of slaves
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Crops began to fail in Ireland which caused the Potato Famine. It killed one million and made almost 500,000 to immigrate to America.
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The California Gold Rush caused the first mass imigration China
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The committee took a deeper look into the " social, moral, and political effect of Chinese imiggration ".
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The economy was troubled, crops have failed, and the climate were the leading causes of mass imigration with almost 4 million Italian Immigrants.
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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.
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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.
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Immigration Act of 1924 establishes fixed quotas of national origin and eliminates Far East immigration.
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“Freedom flight” airlifts begin for Cuban refugees assisting more than 260,000 people over the next eight years.
