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Immigration Timeline

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  • 1607

    1607
    English colonist land at Jamestown, Virginia

  • 1619

    1619
    First blacks were imported and forced as slaves.

  • 1620

    1620
    The Mayflower anchors off Plymouth, colonist begin to disembark.

  • 1786

    1786
    The US est. first Native American reservation and policy of dealing with tribes as independent nation.

  • 1790

    1790
    Federal government requires two years of residency for naturalization.

  • 1798

    1798
    Naturalization Act of 1798 passed by congress, increased the period necessary for immigrants to become naturalized citizens.

  • 1808

    1808
    Congress bans importation of slaves

  • 1845

    1845
    Potato crops in Ireland begin to fail resulting in the Potato Famine. Prompts almost 500,000 to immigrate to america over the next five years.

  • 1849

    1849
    California gold rush sparks mass immigration from china

  • 1876

    1876
    California senate committee investigates in “social, moral, and political effect of Chinese immigrants”.

  • 1880

    1880
    Italy's troubled economy, crop failures, and political climate change result in mass immigration with 4 million Italian immigrants arriving to the US.

  • 1900

    1900
    Congress est. civil government in Puerto Rico. Cuba and Puerto Rico grants US to travel freely between mainland and islands without passports.

  • 1917

    1917
    The US enters WW1

  • 1924

    1924
    Immigration Act of 1924 est. fixed quotas of national origin. President Coolidge signs bill granting Native Americans full citizenship.

  • 1965

    1965
    Immigration Act of 1965 abolishes quota system and replaces with new quota only allowing 20,000 immigrants per country.