Pop. Shifts in the U.S. 1790-1960: Chinese immigration and African American migration

By abdi_ibrahim12

  • Chinese: Naturalization Act

    Law allowing only free white persons to become American citizens.

  • Chinese: Naturalization Act of 1870

    Congress amended the laws to allow people of African descent to become Natural citizens but congress rejected an amendment to extend naturalization to Chinese descent.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Congress suspended the immigration of skilled and unskilled Chinese laborers for twenty years.

  • Chinese: Exclusion Law Amendments

    Congress broadened the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to apply to all Chinese or any other foreign power.

  • Scott Act

    Congress prohibited all Chinese laborers who left the United States, or who in the future would choose to leave, from reentering. It canceled all previous certificates of return.

  • Chinese: Permanent

    Congress made permanent all Chinese exclusion laws.
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    African American: Great Migration

    The mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west.

  • African American: Migration After WWI

    Another 800,000 blacks left the south with a desire to escape oppressive economic conditions in the south.

  • African American: 1930s Migration

    398,000 blacks migrated to cities in the North and West. Like Chicago, New York, Oakland, LA, and Seattle.They left with the promise of greater prosperity in the north.
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    African American: Large Migration

    Over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities.

  • Chinese Laws Repeal

    Congress repealed all laws relating to the deportation and naturalization of Chinese people. They also enabled people of Chinese descent to become American citizens.