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Irish Potatoe Famine
This was a period of time where there was a lot of starvation disease and immigration. People wants to get out of there and go to the United States . -
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Immigration
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The Burlingame Treaty
The Burlingame Treaty is ratified. The treaty pledges to China the right of unrestricted immigration of Chinese citizens to the United States. -
Chinease Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act is passed. The first serious prohibition of free immigration in all of American history, this legislation bans Chinese migration to the United States for ten years. It was renewed in 1892 -
Ellis Island
The federal government opens its new immigration reception center on Ellis Island, which had been and over the next forty years twelve million immigrants passed through it. -
Immigration Arrival
The decade during which the largest number of immigrants arrived in the United States. (The total for the decade is 8,795,386.) -
Mexican Revolution
This revolution sent thousands of Mexicans to the United States. -
Litteracy Trest
This was designed for immigrants who wanted to come into the United States they must have been able to pass a litteracy test to prove that they were able to read some form of language. -
Quota System
A system stating the number of immigrants allowed to enter into the United States each year. -
Immigration restriction
Quota of 350,000 was established. -
Immigration Act
This act removes the national quota system It establishes a ceiling of 270,000 immigrants per year with no more than 20,000 from one country. It creates a system of preferences, with highest priority given to family reunification. -
The Refuge Act
Ten Million Immigrants were now legal immigrants in the United States due to the Vietnamease and cuban refuge crisis -
Angel Island
Immigrants spent years on this Island due to the chinease Exclusion Act. -
Immigration reform and controll act
Allows most illegal aliens that are in the United States continously since the 1 of 1986 -
Immigration act of 1990
This set a ceiling of 700000 immigrants for the next three years and a ceiling of 675000immigrants allowed to enter for every year after that. -
SB 1070
Anti Illegal Immigration in Arizona, making everything more difficult for anyone who may look like they could be an illegal immigrant.
