Immigration

Immigration Timeline

By ims0221

  • 1607

    1607
    • English colonists land at Jamestown, VA
    • Under order of the London Company

  • 1619

    1619
    • African Americans were taken and sold at Jamestown as indentured servants
    • 20 first African Americans in America

  • 1620

    1620
    • Colonists from England land in Plymouth on the Mayflower

  • 1786

    1786
    • The U.S. establishes first Native American reservations
    • The U.S. has to deal with each tribe separately

  • 1790

    1790
    • Federal U.S. government requires two years of residency for naturalization

  • 1808

    1808
    • U.S. Congress bans immigration of slaves

  • 1845

    1845
    • The potato famine in Ireland
    • Kills one million Irish people
    • 500,000 Irish immigrants immigrate to America

  • 1849

    1849
    • California Gold Rush sparks
    • Chinese immigrants immigrate to America

  • 1876

    1876
    • California Senate committee investigate effects on Chinese immigration

  • 1880

    1880
    • Italy began to have a downfall (economy, crops, and climate)
    • Mass immigration from Italy to America
    • Nearly four million Italian immigrants

  • 1900

    1900
    • Congress establishes civil government in Puerto Rico
    • James Act grants U.S. citizenship to Islanders
    • U.S. citizens freely willing to travel to Island

  • 1917

    1917
    • U.S. enters WW1
    • Anti-German hate along Americans
    • American Germans are segregated

  • 1924

    1924
    • Immigration Act of 1924 establishes
    • Fixes quotas & eliminates Far East immigration
    • President Coolidge gives Native Americans full citizenship

  • 1965

    1965
    • Immigration Act of 1965 abolishes quota systems with immigration limits
    • Act reunites immigrant families and gave jobs to the immigrants