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The West Indies and Mexico
Between 1880 and 1920 about 260,000 immigrants arrived in the eastern and south eastern United States from the West Indies. Coming from Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and other Islands. They left their jobs in their homeland were scarce and after the industrial boom jobs were promised to everyone -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This act banned entry to all chinese except students,teachers,merchants,tourists, and government officials.This law came into effect because the Chinese were accepting cheaper labor jobs leaving the natives with few jobs and lower wadges. In 1892 the law was extended for another ten years. This law did not allow chinese to enter America. However, the law was repealed in 1943. -
Japanese Immigration
The United States annexation of Hawaii in 1898 resulted in the increased Japanese immigration to the west. 1907 30,000 left Japan for the United States, by 1907 more than 200,000 Japanese lived on the west coast -
Gentlemens Agreement
In 1906, the local board of education in San Francisco segregated Japanese children by putting them in separate schools. Japan then raised a angry protest, causing President Theodore Roosevelt to work out a deal. The Gentlemens agreement of 1907-1908 agreed to limit the the emigration of unskilled workers to the U.S in exchange for the repeal of the San Francisco segregation order. -
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Dillingham Commission
The United States Immigration Commission, known as the "Dillingham Commission," was formed in response to growing political concern about immigration in the United States. Under the leadership of Vermont Senator William Paul Dillingham, the joint House-Senate commission included US Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and Asbury Latimer; US Representatives Benjamin Howell, William Bennett, and John Burnett; and Charles Neill of the US Department of Labor, Jeremiah Jenks of Cornell University, and William -
The Quota System
In 1921 Congress set up a system, establishing the number of people who would enter the U.S from each foreign country. The goal was to cut European immigration to the U.S. -
Immigration Act of 1965
The main reason the Immigration Act was the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was to rid America of racial/ethnic discrimination. Two other bills, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Johnson signed for the same reason.The Immigration Act was therefore a corrective measure instituted to atone for past history of discrimination in immigration. -
Refugee Act Of 1980
The Refugee Act of 1980 sought to eliminate the prevailing geographic and ideological preferences and to emphasize that persecution, not provenance, was to be the basis for determining refugee eligibility. -
21st Century Diversity
in 1998 three countries (Mexico, China, and India) contributed a third of the total number of immigrants to the United States. the rest of 1998's immigrants came from countries as diverse as Vietnam, Bosnia, and Sudan. American athletes at the 2000 olympic games, in Sydney, Austrailia reflected the increasing diversity of us pointing toward a future in which there may no longer be a majority racial or ethnic group. -
SB 1070
On April 23 2010, the SB 1070 was passed. This act racially profieled against Latino's, Asain Americans and others presumed to be "foreign" based on how they looked our sound. This authorized police officers to demand papers proving citizenship or immigration status from people stopped.
