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Alien and Sedition Acts
This collection of acts permit the President to deport any foreigner deemed to be dangerous with evidence of suspicion. -
Naturalization Act
This act prevents anyone who is not a free white person to have citizenship.The person must abandon their former contry following five years. European indentured servants and African slaves were not inluded in their citizenship. -
Potato Famine
The shortage of potatoes causes nearly two million Irish to migrate into the United States. The Irish faced discrimination and were criticised for their Catholicism. An anti-immigration movement shortly follows and arises as a strong political group. -
The California Gold Rush
The Gold Rush causes an influx from Chinese immigrants into California and western coast. Altlhough, the Foreign Miners Tax is an example of how Chinese minors are forced to pay greater taxes than the American miners. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican-American War is settled with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in which MEXICO
ost half of its territory, and the United States gained Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona,
Nevada, Utah and half of Colorado. Mexicans living in the newly ceded U.S. territory had a year
to decide whether they wanted to keep their Mexican citizenship or switch to become U.S. citizens.
Around 80,000 Mexicans decide to become U.S. citizens and 2000 move south to keep their Mexican
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion Act prevents any Chinese without family already in the United States from immigrating. This law drastically reduces the number of Chinese immigrants entering the United States. Yet again another trick to prevent more Chinese from working in the mines. -
Ellis Island
Ellis Island opens in New York harbor that processes over 12 million immigrants over the next 30 years. A majority of the migrants are European. -
Anarchist Exclusion Act
President William McKinley is assassinated by a Polish anarchist, which leads creates paranoia and hysteria within the U.S. Thus Congress decides to to enact the Anarchist Exclusion Act, which allows immigrants to be excluded on the basis of their
political opinions. Thus limiting the freedom of speech and exlcuding those into our country. -
Mexican Revolution
Mexican Revolution pushes the first Mexican political refugees into the U.S. -
Quota Act
Anti-immigration proponents win a major victory in an attempt to prevent further immigration, especially from Southern and Eastern Europe. In 1919, the U.S. had witnessed the largest nationwide strikes ever with over 1/5 of workers participating. There were bombs in the mail and foreign anarchists were blamed. Combined with an economic recession, the time is ripe for antiimmigrant legislation. The Quota Act limits annual EUROPEAN immigration to 3 percent of the number of a nationality group alre -
Alien Registration Act
The Alien Registration Act requires The registration and fingerprinting of all immigrants in the United States over the age of 14. -
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 was a U.S presidential executive order signed by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese Americans were sent to concentration camps. -
Internal Security Act
An Act to protect the United States against certain people who were not American and requiring those within the Communist organization to register. -
Refugee Act
The United States Refugee Act is the updated version of the Imigration and Nationality Act. This was amended to provide a oermanent and systematic in order to be admitted into the United States as a refugee in regards to humantiarian concern. This act also was concerned with the resettlement of the refugees into a safe place. -
The Immigration Act of 1990
The Immigration Act of 1990 permitted 700,000 immigrants into the U.S annually. Permanent resident visas in urban areas were higher funded than in rural areas. Selective choice of location and people inhabiting those areas is once again evident in U.S. funding and immigrant policy.
