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Naturalization Act of 1795
Any free white person was able to receive citizenship providing they had renounced their allegiance to their previous state by name. Raising the period of residence from two years to five years before a person could be naturalized. -
The Steerge Act
The Steerage Act established standards that had to be followed by ships carrying passengers to the U.S. This act was also called the Manifest of Immigrants Act. -
The Treat of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War, it was in favor of the U.S. This added 525,000 square miles to the United States territory. Mexico gave up all to Texas and the Rio Grande had become noticed as America's southern boundary. -
The Great Compromise
Compromise of 1850 consisted of laws that had admitted California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico as territories with the question of slavery. -
The Homestead Act
This act opened up settlement in the western U.S. which allowed any American including freed slaves to be able to claim up to 160 free acres of the federal land. -
The 15th Amendment is Passed
This amendment gave the right to the citizens of the United States to vote and it shall not be denied by the United States or by any state account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This federal law had been signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act was on of the most important restrictions on free immigration, prohibiting all of the immigration of the Chinese laborers. -
Immigration Act
This was an acted passed by congress which was a comprehensive immigration law, it levied a tax of 50 cents on all immigrants that were landing at the U.S. ports as a government immigration fund. -
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a sign of freedom. It was proposed by the French historian to commemorate the Franco-American alliance during the American Revolution. -
U.S. Border Patrol
Congress had established the Border Patrol as part of the Immigration Bureau. It was to help secure the borders between inspection stations. -
World War II
World War II- social changes such as, the civil rights movement in the United States and modern women's rights movement. -
The Immigration and Nationality Act
McCarran-Walter Act 'Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952' was to exclude certain immigrants from immigrating to America after World War II. -
Arizona Proposition 203 'English for Children'
States that all of the public schools must be instructed in English. If children are not fluent in English then they should normally be placed in an intensive one-year English immersion program. -
9/11-Terrorist Attacks Prompt US Department of Defense to Expand Military Support along the Borders
9/11- This terrorist attack that was on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon had resulted in the United States government and Department of Defense to expand out military along all the borders. -
Secure Fence Actu Authorizes Fencing Along The US-Mexican Border
The Secure Fence Act was to authorize the construction of miles and miles of double-layered fencing. It was to take action to stope the unlawful entry of the undocumented immigrants and terrorists.
