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MOre than 10 million immigrants came to the United States.
They were called the "Old Immigrants", most of them were from Europe. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration -
Period: to
12 million immigrants arrived on U.S. shores.
By the 1900s about 60% of the people living the 12 largest cities were foreign-born or had a foreign-porn parents. -
Exclusion act expired in 1892
Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act -
The Geary Act
Extended the Chinese Exclusion Act -
The first large movements of Blacks during World War I
When 454,000 black southerners moved north. -
Another 800,000 blacks left the south
followed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930s. -
Period: to
3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities.
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Congress repealed all the exclusion acts,
leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization -
Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1965
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Western Asian Hempisphere
a limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States -
The Immigration Act of 1990.
Provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965.