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U.S. Immigration
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Naturalization Act of 1790
This act allowed for immigrants to become naturalized citizens after two years of living in the United States -
Alien and Sedition Acts
required 14 years of residency before citizenship and provided for the deportation of "dangerous" aliens. Changed to five-year residency in 1800. -
The Page Act of 1875
The first restrictive federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants -
The Immigration Act of 1882
Imposed a 50 cent head tax to fund immigration officials -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The mass deportation of Chinese immigrants in the United States -
The Geary Act
It strengthen the Chinese exclusion act -
Nationality Act of 1906
It required nationality at birth -
Gentlemen's Agreement
It was a treaty between the United States and Japan represented an effort by President Theodore Roosevelt to calm growing tension between the two countries over the immigration of Japanese workers. -
Immigration Act of 1917
It was the first significant piece of legislation that restricted immigration in general ways. -
Emergency Quota Act
This limited the number of immigrants from any country of 3% of those already in the U.S. -
Immigration Act of 1924
It targeted immigrants based on their nation of origin rather than ethnicity or religion. -
Immigration Reform Act
It granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant. -
Immigration Act of 1990
This increased the total immigration limit to 700,000 and increased visas by 40 percent -
Arizona SB 1070 Act
Any immigrant in the state of Arizona has to be registered in the government -
Alabama HB 56 Citizen's Protection Act
It is regarded as the nations’ strictest anti-illegal immigration law.
