Immigration

Immigration Timeline

By DanielMorrow1

  • 1607

    1607
    English Colonists landed in Jamestown, Virginia

  • 1619

    1619
    Twenty African Americans were sold as "Indentured Servants" at Jamestown

  • 1620

    1620
    The Mayflower anchors at Plymouth, and the colonists disembark

  • 1786

    1786
    America establishes each tribe as a private reservation

  • 1790

    1790
    Naturalization Law was passed (allowed national citizenship) which said you need two years of residency to become a resident

  • 1798

    1798
    Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by President Addams saying that it would be harder for immigrants to vote and to deport immigrants

  • 1808

    1808
    The act of importing slaves became illegal (no slave trade)

  • 1845

    1845
    There was a potato famine in Ireland, so there was a big wave of immigrants heading to America

  • 1849

    1849
    The Gold Rush had brought the attention of people from China, so many immigrants came from China

  • 1876

    1876
    California Committee investigates the social, moral, and political effects of Chinese immigration

  • 1880

    1880
    Italy's situation had been not been well, millions of Italians immigrated to America

  • 1900

    1900
    Cuba and Puerto Rico have the ability to become citizens and Americans don't need a passport to travel to Cuba/Puerto Rico

  • 1917

    1917
    America enters World War 1, German names of schools, buildings, places are all changed to sound less Germany.

  • 1924

    1924
    The immigration act of 1924 limited the amount of immigrants allowed into the US through a national origins quota

  • 1965

    1965
    Immigration act of 1965 abolished an earlier act, and was based on reuniting immigrant families and skilled labor. (Became effective 1968)