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Chinese exclusion act was signed
This act provided a 10 year granteed end to chinese immigration -
the exclusion act exspired
The exclusion act expired
They entended it for 10 more years in the Geary Act. -
The Geary Act was made permanent
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World War 1
first large move ment of blacks 454,000 blacks moved to the north -
The great migration
it was a mass movement of 5 million southern blacks to the north and west due to high demand of workers -
The Geary Act stopped regulating
the post war immigration increased so the government game up with differents ways to regulate. Example through quotas and requirements through national origin. -
In the 1920's
over 800,000 blacks left -
In the 1930's
In this time period 398,000 blacks moved to the north and west -
World War 2
Migrants continured to move north but many headed west to Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and seattle -
In the 1940's
from 1940 to the end of the great migration in 1960 3,348,000 blacks left to the north and west for jobs and a better life -
Congress Reappealed all of the exclusion acts
Doing this it gave chinese a yearly limit of 105 chinese and gave foreign born chinese the right to seek naturalization -
The Great Migration Ended
The great migration ended -
Congress passed the immigration law of 1965
They passed the law -
Immigration law of 1968 became effective
The immigration law became effective with these laws
-a limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States, with a maximum of 20,000 from any one country.