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Citizenship
Any free whites could apply for citizenship after two years of residency. -
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott decision declared that free Africans were non-citizens -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment gave African Americans citizenship -
Naturalization act of 1870
This was a law passed by the United States Congress concerning immigration and immigrants. -
U.S. Population
The U.S populationwas 50,155,783. More than 5.2 million imigrants entered the country from 1880-1890 -
Chinese exclusion
Congress passed a bill requiring literacy tests for immigrants. The Chinese exclusion act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. -
Chinese exclusion act extended
Chinese Exclusion Act was extended for another 10 years. -
Ellis Island
A immigration station in the New York harbor. The gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. -
Chinese Immigrants
50,000 Chinese immigrants entered at Angel island in Sanfrancisco Bay. -
Chinese Immigration law is finally repealed
Chinese Exclusion Act is finally repealed after many years of the Chinese being restricted.
