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This law limited naturalization to "free white people of good character". It excluded Native Americans, indentured servants, enslaved people, free black people, and later Asians.
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This law was basically the same as before, except resident children of naturalized citizens were to be considered citizens. Also, children born abroad of the U.S. citizens were to be considered citizens. Former British soldiers were banned from being citizens.
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This act states that a child born outside of the U.S. is a citizen of the child's father is a U.S citizen. It also states that alien immigrant women can gain citizenship through marriage to an American citizen or the naturalization of their husband
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The fourteenth amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. including formerly enslaved people and provided all people with "equal protection under the laws".
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This act states that any American woman who marries a foreigner shall take the nationality of her husband
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This act granted extended eligibility to citizenship to descendants of races indigenous to the western hemisphere.
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On this day it was declared that human rights are universal. They are to be enjoyed by all people no matter who they are or where they live. That includes civil and political rights like the right to life, liberty, free speech, and privacy.