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Emancipation Proclamation
Passed by Abraham Lincoin after the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Confederate States. -
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Chinese Exclusion Act
This act allowed Chinese nonlaborers qualification to immigrate if they had no job. -
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Geary Act
Congress extended the Exclusion Act until 1902. But, it has the new name Geary Act. -
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Great Migration
This is when majority of migrants moved to major northern cities such as Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylcania, New York and moved to Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle. -
Black move south
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Immigration Act
The act established a "Flexible" worldwide cap on family-based, and diversity immigrant visas. -
Act of 1965
a limit of 1700,000 imigrants -
immigration act of 1990
Allowed legal imigration