Immigration Timeline

By micarlso

  • Naturalization Act

  • War of 1812

    Brought Immigration to a hault.
  • Period: to

    Big time for immigrants

    Over ten million immigrants arrived in the states, mainly in the midwest.

  • First decade for the Immigration to rise about 1 million

  • Spanish-American War

  • Literacy test becomes a law for incoming immagrants

  • WW1

  • The Immigration Act

  • The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

  • The Immigration Act of 1990

  • Proposition 187 enacted by California Legislature

  • Welfare Reform Reconcilliation Act

  • 9/11

  • U.S. Patriot Act

  • SB 1070, Arizona Law Passed