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Jan 1, 1539
Arizona Claimed by Spain
While on his mighty quest to find the 7 cities, Marcos De Niza claimed Arizona in the name of Spain. -
Beginning of Colonial Immigration in America
settlers started settling in a new nation which would come to be the United States of America -
First Permanent Spanish Settlement
Settlement was established in Arizona -
America Wins
George Washington leads America to victory over Great Britian in the American Revolutionary War. -
United States of America Declares Independence
Declaration of Independence was approved and signed. Happy Birthday America! -
Alien and Sedition Acts
These acts regulated immigration and citizenship to the United States. Increased residency requirement for American citizenship, authorized the president to imprison immigrants who were considered dangerous, and restricted to speech. -
First Alien Naturalization
First alien naturalization act. This was enacted by the US Government. This act presented the nations first rules to be followed by all people wanting citizenship. The law was limited to immigrants who were 'free white persons'. This law did not include indentured servants, slaves, and most women. Indentured servants, slaves, and most all women were actually considered dependents. -
Mexico Takes Control of Arizona
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Treaty of Guadalupe
Allowed 80,000 people gain American citizenship because they lived on newly acquired American land. -
Mexican War
America won the Mexican War and gained all of the territory north of the Gila River through the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -
Gadsen Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853. -
Confederacy Claimed Arizona and New Mexico
In 1861 the Confederacy claimed the southern tract as its own Arizona Territory and waged the ambitious New Mexico Campaign in an attempt to control the American Southwest and open up access to Union California. Confederate power in the New Mexico Territory was effectively broken after the Battle of Glorieta Pass in 1862. -
The 14h Amendment
The 14th Amendment is legislation in the US that was ratified on the 9th of July 1868. The legislation grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States. It also forbids states from denying any person his life, liberty or property, without a due process of law. It was meant to protect the civil rights of all Americans regardless of their race or gender. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act signed into the United States federal law by Charles A. Arthur. This took place on May 6, 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act put restrictions on Chinese immigration regardless if the person was skilled or not. Under this act if a Chinese immigrant was found to have entered the United States they could be faced with deportation or being put in prison. This act caused some families to not be able to be together. -
The Immigration Act
Congress passed a new Immigration Act that stated a 50 cents tax would be levied on all aliens landing at United States ports. An act in which the State Commission and officers were in charge of checking the passengers upon incoming vessels arriving in the U.S. The passengers were examined by a set of exclusionary criteria. Upon examination passengers who appeared to be convicts, lunatics, idiots or unable to take care of themselves were not permitted onto land. -
Arizona Becomes a State
Arizona admitted to the union -
Border Patrol Initiated
Inspectors located at the border to stop any illegal immigration -
Equal Education Act
Prohibits discrimination against faculty, staff, and students, including racial segregation of students, and requires school districts to take action to overcome barriers to students' equal participation. -
Prop 203 Anti-Bilingual Initiative in Arizona
An initiative statute, prohibits native-language instruction for most limited-English-proficient children in public schools. Using the electoral process to micromanage the schools, the new law imposes a statewide English-only mandate, overruling the -
Civillian Patrol
In the spring of 2005,
attention focused on these civilian patrols, when the “Minuteman Project” mobilizedHundreds of volunteers along the Arizona-Mexico border to observe and report the movement of illegal aliens to the U.S. Border Patrol. Although some participants were armed, Minutemen volunteers were instructed not to engage in hostile confrontations with any illegal alien. -
SB1070
U.S. federal law requires all aliens over the age of 14 who remain in the United States for longer than 30 days to register with the U.S. government, and to have registration documents in their possession at all times.
