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Timeline. 1790. Nationality Act of 1790. This was the first law to define eligibility for. citizenship. by. naturalization. and establish standards and procedures by which immigrants became US citizens. In this early version, Congress limited this important right to “free white persons.”.
- Chinese Exclusion Act Aka
The 1882 law affirmed the 1790 Nationality Act’s bar against...
- People V. Hall
Source. THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. GEORGE W. HALL,...
- Johnson-Reed Act
This Act set its quotas to 2 percent of resident populations...
- 14th Amendment
Ratified in 1868 to secure equal treatment for African...
- Barred Zone Act
That after three months from the passage of this Act, in...
- Background
Timeline; Lesson Plans. Overview of Major Laws; Asian...
- Hart-Celler Act
1965. This law set the main principles for immigration...
- Chinese Exclusion Act Aka
- White People of 'Good Character' Granted Citizenship
- Irish Immigrant Wave
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Ellis Island Opens
- Photos: Immigration at Ellis Island
- New Restrictions at Start of WWI
- Mexicans Fill Labor Shortages During WWII
- Quota System Ends
- Amnesty to Undocumented Immigrants
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January 1776: Thomas Paine publishes a pamphlet, “Common Sense,” that argues for American independence. Most colonists consider themselves Britons, but Paine makes the case for a new American. “Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from...
1815: Peace is re-established between the United States and Britain after the War of 1812. Immigration from Western Europe turns from a trickle into a gush, which causes a shift in the demographics of the United States. This first major wave of immigration lasts until the Civil War. Between 1820 and 1860, the Irish—many of them Catholic—account for...
1880: As America begins a rapid period of industrialization and urbanization, a second immigration boom begins. Between 1880 and 1920, more than 20 million immigrants arrive. The majority are from Southern, Eastern and Central Europe, including 4 million Italians and 2 million Jews. Many of them settle in major U.S. cities and work in factories. 18...
January 1892: Ellis Island, the United States’ first immigration station, opens in New York Harbor. The first immigrant processed is Annie Moore, a teenager from County Cork in Ireland. More than 12 million immigrants would enterthe United States through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954. 1907: U.S. immigration peaks, with 1.3 million people enter...
February 1907: Amid prejudices in California that an influx of Japanese workers would cost white workers farming jobs and depress wages, the United States and Japan sign the Gentlemen’s Agreement. Japan agrees to limit Japanese emigration to the United States to certain categories of business and professional men. In return, President Theodore Roos...
1917: Xenophobia reaches new highs on the eve of American involvement in World War I. The Immigration Act of 1917establishes a literacy requirement for immigrants entering the country and halts immigration from most Asian countries. May 1924: The Immigration Act of 1924limits the number of immigrants allowed into the United States yearly through na...
1942: Labor shortages during World War II prompt the United States and Mexico to form the Bracero Program, which allows Mexican agricultural workers to enter the United States temporarily. The program lasts until 1964. 1948: The United States passes the nation’s first refugee and resettlement law to deal with the influx of Europeans seeking permane...
1965: The Immigration and Nationality Actoverhauls the American immigration system. The Act ends the national origin quotas enacted in the 1920s which favored some racial and ethnic groups over others. The quota system is replaced with a seven-category preference system emphasizing family reunification and skilled immigrants. Upon signing the new b...
1986: President Ronald Reagansigns into law the Simpson-Mazzoli Act, which grants amnesty to more than 3 million immigrants living illegally in the United States. 2001: U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) propose the first Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which would provide a pathway to legal s...
Immigration Timeline, The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. LBJ on Immigration, LBJ Presidential Library. The Nation's Immigration Laws, 1920 to Today, Pew Research Center. 1986: Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Library of Congress.
- Missy Sullivan
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Mar 5, 2010 · Between 1965 and 2000, the highest number of immigrants (4.3 million) to the U.S. came from Mexico, in addition to some 1.4 million from the Philippines. Korea, the Dominican Republic, India, Cuba ...
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Aug 12, 2019 · Drew Angerer/Getty Images. When the U.S. Congress passed—and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law—the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, the move was largely seen as symbolic ...
- Lesley Kennedy
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Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 3, 1965. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act and more recently as the 1965 Immigration Act, is a landmark federal law passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. [1]
Jul 22, 2020 · A detailed look at immigration legislation from the Colonial Period to the present. 1790–1850. 1851–1900. 1901–1950. 1951–1980. 1981–present. 1790. The Naturalization Act of 1790, the country's first naturalization statute, says that unindentured white males must live in the U.S. for two years before becoming citizens. 1795.
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