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Mar 29, 1500
1500's
Arizona was first explored by the Spanish -
1795: Naturalization Act
Naturalization Act restricts citizenship to “free white persons” who reside in the United
States for five years and renounce their allegiance to their former country. “Free white persons”
disqualifies both African slaves and poor whites who came to the U.S. as indentured servants. -
1814 Political Unrest
Napoleon's first fall from grace in 1814 and the failed revolutions of 1848 throughout Europe, many political refugees made the trip across the Atlantic. -
Mexican-Americans
Following the victory of the United States in the Mexican-American War and the forced cession of some of Mexico's territory, 80,000 Mexicans who resided in Texas, California and the Southwest became American citizens. -
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The Great Famine
Major repeated crop failures in Germany led to an important influx of immigrants, but it was the Irish Potato Famine from 1845 to 1850 that led many Irish immigrants to rush to the United States. -
Gila River
United States won the Mexican War and gained all of Arizona, north of the Gila River through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -
Politics and Immigration II
In the mid 1850s, the first anti-immigration movement was born. -
Gadsden Purchase
The rest of Arizona becomes part of United States by the Gadsden Purchase -
The Homestead Act
The Homestead Act of 1862, for example, provided land, for free or at minimal cost, in the West to settlers who agree to develop and live on it for at least five years. -
The Abolishment of Slavery
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, thus officially abolishing slavery -
Southern Europeans
A flood of immigrants arrived. Southern Europeans such as Italians and Greeks, as well as Eastern Europeans speaking Slavic languages like Hungarians, Poles and Russians formed the bulk of the 25 million immigrants between 1880 and 1930. -
Statehood
The Date that Arizona was admitted to the Union - February 14, 1912. The Constitution - Arizona was the 48th State to be admitted to the Union. State Motto - Ditat Deus - motto translated as " God enriches " -
Emergency Quota Act Of 1921
The Emergency Quota Act restricts immigration from a given country to 3% of the number of people from that country living in the US in 1910. -
Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement
Part of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 broke away from the past. It was no longer a quota system based on race and nationality but a visa system. -
Native Indians of Arizona
American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed
