immigration laws timeline

  • IRON ACT

    The act was devloped to be able to use raw materials in a manufactoring competion with Great Brittan
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  • naturalization act

    The act granted all free white persons citizenship in the U.S.
  • Forign miners tax

    The forien miners tax attempted limited the chinese in califronia by taxing the chinese 3$
  • People V.S. The hall

    The people chinese, blacks and native amreicans v.s. the hall white people was invalid towards the "people" beacuse of thier testimony.
  • san francisco public schools

    san francisco's puplic schools excluded the chinese from attending their schools
  • The first immigration law

    This law encouraged immigration and at the same time blocked out the harlots and criminals.
  • Californic civil code

    The code prohibited intreratial maraiges between whites and mulatto,negro or mongolian.
  • chinese exclusion act of 1882

    This was first imigration law to prohibit all immigrants from a country as well as prohibiting chinese labors from emigrating and becoming citizens for 10 years.
  • Afrermath of the spanish american war

    after the war with the philipions they were given to the U.S. therefore they were named "wards" because they did not need a visa to travel to the U.S.
  • CONGRESS

    Congress extended the probition aginst chinese immigratinon and exended the act further more
  • pensionado Act

    The act allowed philipino students to study in the U.S.
  • San Francisco school board

    The power of Japan cause that all asian students in San Francisco must attend segregated schools.
  • The Immigration act of 1907

    On criminals it expanded and reinforced restrictions and on section one it focused at the Japanese and Koreans to keep them out
  • The Gentleman's Agreement

    The US would leave the japanese alone if Japan impose restriction on emigration to the US
  • The California Alien Land Act

    It aimed mostly on Japanes farmers by letting them get land
  • The Immigration act of 1917

    It didnt allow immigration from large areas like Asia
  • The Immigration Act of 1921

    Introduced an anual limit on the nummber of immigrant of each country
  • The Immigration Act of 1924

    It toughened the quota system by using a 2 percent than a 3 percent
  • Executive Order 9066

    it called the relocation of 110,000 Japanes american into internmen camps
  • Immigration act of 1943

    It allowed Chines immigrants to becom naturalized citizens if only 105 chines were allowed to immigrate
  • Internment Camps

    They were finally closed
  • Bill of 1946

    The act allowed filiinos and inians to become citizens and quotas were set at 100 persons per country
  • Displacement persons act

    The act allowed 3,500 caught chinese to stay in the U.S.
  • Mccarran- walter act of 1952

    The act removed all ratial cryteria and still kept the quotas small
  • The naionality act of 1965

    The act abolished the national orgins quota system , it started family renification
  • Immigration overflow

    After the cap was removed the immigration rose signifiantly well over 12,000 min.
  • Denied citizenship

    Even though filipinos fought for the U.S. in world war II the veterans were denied to be come a citizen
  • Simpson-Rodino act

    The act raised the celling on immigration from 600 to 5,000 in Hong Kong
  • civil liberties Act of 1988

    The americans apoligized to the japinese americans who were detained in camps during world war 2
  • Immigration Act of 1990

    the total immigration count was lowred to 675,000 and each nation was limited to 25,000
  • U.S.A. Patroit act

    The act provided the nessary tools to intercect and obstruct terrorism
  • Creation of the U.S.C.I.S.

    This orginization was created to manage immigration and all other proprities of immigration