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US immigration
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The Naturalization Act
reduced residency requirments from 14 to 5 -
Anti-Coolie-Act
put special tax for those who hired chinese workers -
Homestead Act
provided people with land to 160 acers -
15th amendment
gave voting rights to all citizens -
Naturalization Act (1870)
expands citizenship to whites and african americans but not Chinese -
Chinese exculsion act
Prevents chinese to immagrate to the US -
Immigration Act of 1882
Gave tax for landing in certain places and gave categories for people who couldn’t be citizens -
Alien contract labor law
prevents any company or individual to bring an immigrant to the US to work -
Geary Act
extends chinese exclusion act for 10 years and requires chinese residents to carry a permit -
Chinese exclusion act (1902)
renewed -
Naturalization act of 1906
have to know english to become a citizen -
Expatriation act
if american women marries immigrant, she loses citizenship -
California's alien land law
Prevents those who can’t have citizenship from owning land in state -
Immigration act of 1917
restricts immigratnes from asia -
Jones-Shafroth act
grants US citizenship to Puerto Ricans -
Emergency quota act
restricts immigration from a given country to 3 -
Cable act
takes away expatriation act, but if women marries asian she still loses citizenship -
Immigration act of 1924
limits European immigration to 2% -
Oriental exclusion act
prohibits immigrants from asia -
Tydings-Mcduffe act
grants Philippines independence -
Alien Registration act
requires fingerprints of immigrants over age 14 -
Immigration and Nationality Act
eliminated race as a bar to immigration -
Hart celler act
abolished national origins quotas -
Refugee act
removes refugees as a preference category -
Immigration act of 1990
Limited unskilled workers to 10,000/ year -
2001- USA Patriot act
To greaten the search for aliens ineligible for admission
