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Immigration
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Mechanized elevator
Elisha Otis developed the mechanized elevator which allowed building to be higher than 5 stories -
Chinese exclusion act
Congress passed the chinese exclusion act which denied citizenship to people born in china and prohibited the immigration of chinese laborers. -
IRL
An orginization founded by wealthy Bostonians, the immigration restriction leaque they tried to pass a bill that would make all illegal immigrants take a literacy tests but president Grover Cleveland vetoed the bill -
Geary Act
Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. This extension, made permanent in 1902, added restrictions by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, she or he faced deportation -
African American movement
The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north -
Congress repealed all the exclusion acts
In 1943 Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization. -
The Immigration Act of 1990
The Immigration Act of 1990 provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965. The act established a “flexible” worldwide cap on family-based, employment-based, and diversity immigrant visas. The act further provides that visas for any single foreign state in these categories may not exceed 7 percent of the total available.