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Founded Jamestown
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20 slaves arrived in North America
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Mayflower sails from Plymouth
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The Treaty of Hopewell is signed
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Fed gov requires 2 years of Resistance before becoming a citizen
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Alien and Sedition Acts are signed off on
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Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves comes to effect
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Texas entered the United States as a slave state
, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War. -
Chinese immigrants continued to come to America
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Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for states to regulate immigration and to tax incoming passengers
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20 million immigrants came to US
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Italy, Poland, and Russia immigrants come to US
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The Immigration Act of 1917
Restricted the immigration of 'undesirables' from other countries, including "idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, alcoholics, poor, criminals, beggars, any person suffering attacks of insanity -
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
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The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965
