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Nationality Act of 1790
Law defining eligibility for citizenship by naturalization, created procedures for immigrants to become citizens, Congress limited this right to free white people -
Indian Removal Act
During the time of Andrew Jackson, this law authorized the removal by force of the Native Americans and their land to be confiscated -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Supreme Court ruled that slaves and free African Americans were citizens of the U.S. and therefor did not have rights -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln gives executive order that all slaves in the Confederate states were free -
Naturalization Act of 1870
Congress expands list of those eligible for naturalization which includes all white people and people of African descent -
Elk v. Wiggins
Supreme Court rules that the fourteenth does not apply to Native Americans who were given citizenship automatically -
Expatriation Act of 1907
Women assumed citizenship of their husbands, with this act if a U.S. born women married a non citizen immigrant they lost their citizenship -
Jones-Shafroth Act
Act that gave U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans after the island was acquired by the U.S. -
Ozawa v. United States
Affirmation that Asians were not eligible for naturalization because they are not racially white -
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Law that automatically made all Native Americans citizens by birth