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Chinese Exclusion Act
required nonlaborers to get certification form the Chinese Government to immigrate. -
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Immigrtion
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Geary Act was formed
The Chinese Exlusion act expired and congress extended it to the Geary Act and added more restrictions. and ended in the 1920s -
The great Migration
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west. -
Wartime racial incident
white rioters ramoaged through african american neighborhods, leaving 39 dead. -
First movement
First movement of blacks occured during World War I when 454,000 black southerners moved north -
Congress repealed all exclusion acts
This made it so that there was a yearly limit of 105 chinese immigrats.The so-called national origin system, with various modifications, lasted until Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1965