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Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves
On march 2, 1807, The U.S. Congress passed this legislation to end the international slave trade. President Thomas Jefferson promptly signed the act, making the bill offical law January 1, 1808. However states still used the slave system, this bill helped stop the importation of African people to the United Stated specifically for slave labor. -
Texas Revolution
Mexico is ultimately defeated in Texas's revolution. The Region of Texas and American citizens will remain an independent nation until 1845. -
Homestead Act
This act encouraged western settlement of territories to any adult citized or intended citizen. Citizens could recieve free government land for living on and improving the land for a duration of 5 years. -
Pacific Railroad Act
Federal subsidies in land and loans made way for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States. This merged the companies of Union Pacific and Central Pacific. Immigrants built the railroad by majority including: Irish and German immigrants, freed slaves, and especially Chinese immigrants played a part in the construction. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act put limitations on Chinese imigration for 10 years. Under this act Chinese works faced labor restrictions and were unable to leave the country. In addtition, this act also denied convicts, the mentally insane, sick and others unable to care for themselves from entering the country. -
Statue of Liberty
Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was commissioned to design the sculpture to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence. The people of France gave the Statue to the people of the United States in recognition of the friendship established during the American Revolution. Citizens have grown to reconize this symbol as freedom ,democracy, friendship between countries, and immigration. -
Ellis Island
Under the immigration acts of 1891, the government took control and begain to inventory the immigrants coming into America through Stations like Ellis Island. 12 million immigrants came through Ellis Island. -
Law of Naturalization
The Naturalization Acts went into effect in 1907. Women lost their status as American citizen by marrying immigrants. American women marrying immigrants were expected to adopt husband's nationality. -
Arizona is Born
Arizona ia admitted to the union as the 48th State. -
Emergency Quota Act
The quotas acts were a temporary limitation to the percentatge of each nationality present in the United States. Certain categories of people were not included such as perfessionals. -
The Immigration and Nationality Act
Also known as the "McCarran-Walter Act" the Immigration and Nationality Act was meant to exclude certain groups of people from immigrating to the U.S.during post World War II and in the early Cold War. Rather than focusing on immigrant's origin or nationality, the U.S. would deny immigrants who were "unlawful", "immoral" , sick, politically different, and or those unable to assimilate. -
Arrest of Rosa Parks
The Arrest of Rosa Parks starts the Montgomery Bus Boycott which last until 1956. -
Little Rock School Desegregation
A movement in civil rights. Brown V.S. Board of Educaiton declared that segregated school were unconstitutional in 1954. In 1957 in Little Rock Arkansas President Eisenhower sent miltary troops to assist African American students to and from Central High. -
Berlin Wall is Erected
The Berlin Wall is produced by Soviet control to keep East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin -
The North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) This agreement will remove practically all barriers to trade and investment among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This adjusted and eliminated tariffs over time. Nafta affected corporations, agricultural, and the market. -
USA PATRIOT Act
The Patriot Act increased national security after the 9/11 attack. Immigration was restricted with new laws. A division of Homeland Security was developed eleven days after the attacks and new plans for "border" security were in place. Part of the bill enorced banks to track the names of customers to prevent terrorist money laundering. -
Arizona Immigration Acts
Sb1070 and hb2162 were two controversial bills Arizona produced on immigration against undocumented immigrants. These bills were know as the "papers plese" laws and highly racially profiling. -
E-Verify
Arizona employers would need to use E-verify to check the legal status of employee's residency
