Immigration Timeline

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act

    it banned entry to all Chinese except students. teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials.
  • Polish National Alliance

    This gruop is founded with the idea of promoting middle-class, secular Polish-Americans.
  • The Immigration Act of 1882

    This act levies a tax of fifty cents on all immigrants landing at US ports and makes several categories of immigrants ineligible for citizenship including lunatics and people likely to become public charges.
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

    Landmark U.S. legislation establishing the tradition and mechanism of permanent federal employment based on merit rather than on political party affiliation.
  • Alien Contract Labor Law

    This law prohibits any company or individual from bringing immigrants into the United States under contract to perform labor.
  • Americanization Movement

    This was made to understand all the people of different cultures. Because the people of different cultures were becoming the dominant culture.
  • Geary Act

    This act extends the Chinese Exclusion Act for another ten years and adds the requirement that all Chinese residents carry permits, as well as excluding them from serving as witnesses in court and from bail in habeus corpus proceedings
  • Social Gospel Movement

    This was a movement based on belief that Christians have a responsibility to help improve working conditions and alleviate poverty.
  • Gentlemens Agreement

    Japan was sending too many unskilled workers to America that they have send less and the United States gets the repeal of San Fransisco segregation order.
  • The Immigration Act of !917

    This act doesnt allow asian immigrants to create a "Asiatic Barred Zone."