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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalup Hidalgo ended the U.S.-Mexican War. It is the oldest treaty still in force between the United States and Mexico. The United States acquired more than 500,000 square miles of valuable territory from this. -
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Immigration Policies
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Compromise
The compromise of 1850 was established to stop the Slavery and slave tradein the United States after the Mexican American war. -
The Fifteen Amendment
The fifteen Amendment was rafted and granted voting rights to citizens, regarless of there race or color. -
Page Act of 1875
This was the first federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants that were considered "undesirable". -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration -
Naturalization Act of 1906
Signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt. It revised the law from 187. This required immigrants to learn English in order to become naturalized citizens. -
Barred Zones of 1917
Barred Zone Act restricted immigration from Asia by creating an "Asiatic Barred Zone". It introduced a reading test for all immigrants over 14 years of age. This had certain exceptions for children, wives and elderly family members. -
Bracero Program
This was a program that required people to come to the United States mainly to do Manual labor. This was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States. -
Immigration and Nationality Act
This Law was designed to treat all contries equally. This Law kept the overall quota on total immigration for eastern Hemisphere contries, originally sat at 170,00 and no more than 20,000 indivifduals were allowed to imigrate to the United States from any single country.The important pereference were given to realatives of U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens. -
Immigration Reform and Control Act
Granted a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States before 1982 but made it a crime to hire an illegal immigrant. -
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
Made drastic changes to asylum law, immigration detention, criminal-based immigration, and many forms of immigration relief. -
The Real ID Act
created more restrictions on political asylum, severely curtailed habeas corpus relief for immigrants, increased immigration enforcement mechanisms, altered judicial review, and imposed federal restrictions for immigratns to get drivers license.
