Immigration Issues in the History of the U.S and Arizona

By Tamariann

  • The Steerage Act.

    First federal legislation for immigration

  • Mexico Abolished Slavery

    African, Spanish and Native American Ancestry was abolished by the President of Mexico.

  • United States war against Mexico

    The war that made most of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado part of the United States.

  • Gold Rush

    A large amount of immigrants from around the world came to California to find gold.

  • The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Ended the war between the United States and Mexico.

  • The Great Compromise

    It spread slavary in order to keep a balance between the north and south.

  • Dred Scott v. Standord

    Supreme court bans slavary in unconstitutional territories in the U.S.

  • The Homestead Act

    Provided free plots of up to 160 acres of western land to settlers who agree to develop and live on it for at least five years,

  • 15th Amendment is Passed

    The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified, granting voting rights to citizens, regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act

    Restricts all Chinese immigration to the United States for a period of ten years.

  • Immigration Act

    Congress passed a new Immigration Act that stated a 50 cents tax would be levied on all aliens landing at United States ports.

  • The Dillingham Commission

    The Dillingham Commission identifies Mexican laborers as the best solution to the Southwest labor shortage.

  • Emergency Quota Act

    The act greatly restricted the number of immigrants allowed to enter the country by a quota system based on their country of origin.

  • The Civil Rights Movement

    The civil rights movement was a struggle by African Americans to achieve Civil Rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of racial discrimination.

  • Immigration Reform & Control Act

    Employers were hiring immigrants for lower wages and it made the popultion of illegal immigrants to go up in the U.S