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Naturalization Act of 1790
This Act restricted immigration to any alien that was a free white citizen and had lived in the U.S for 2 years. This prevented indentured servants, slaves and non-whites from immigrating. -
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U.S Immigration Events
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Alien and Sedition Act
Act which allowed the president to deport any alien, legal or not, if they are judged to be a threat. -
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
This federal law prohibited further importation of slaves into the country, while still keeping the act of slavery legal. This rapidly expanded the system of domestic trade present in the country at the time. -
Irish Potato Famine
A great famine in Ireland spurned the immigration of over 1 million immigrants over the course of 20 years to America. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This peace treaty between the U.S and Mexico served to award the U.S with a wide exxpanse of Mexican land and end the war. Mexican citizens living on this land were given a year to either become citizens and remain, or leave their land behind -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Act signed by Chester A. Arthur which prohibited the immigration of all Chinese workers. -
Opening of Ellis Island
Ellis Island would become the obiquitous port of passage to New York, where many European immigrants would pass through to enter America. -
Anarchist Exclusion Act
Much like the Alien and Sedition Act, this classified Anarchists and a few other groups as inadmissable to the U.S. -
Angel Island Immigration Center
The counter to Ellis Island, Angel Island served as a place for immigrants to be detained, questioned and ultimately deported from the country. -
California Alien Land Law
State legislation which prohibited the purchase of land by aliens ineligble for citizenship, rather making them lease out the land for a period no longer than 3 years. -
Immigration Act of 1917
Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 to add to the lists of persons disallowed from immigrating as well as requiring that all immigrants over the age of 16 be literate in at least one language. -
Jones-Shafroth Act
This act served to grant Puerto Ricans American citizenship, so that they could be conscripted by the U.S to participate in WW1. -
Emergency Quota Act
Post WW1 Act which placed numerical limitations on immigration into the U.S to combat the mass that arrived in the aftermath of the war. -
Executive Order 9066
Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of this Executive Order allowed the relocation of 112,000 Japanese-Americans into ten internment camps on the west coast. -
Immigration Act of 1990
Signed by George H. W. Bush in 1990, this act served to increase the amount of immigrants recieved by the country by 700,000. As well as offering 10,000 permanent visas for affluent immigrants looking to invest in the country.
