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This law limited naturalization to immigrants who were "free white persons" of "good moral character"
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increased the amount of time necessary for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the United States from five to fourteen years
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After this yar the federalist party ceased to exist.
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The modern Democratic party was formed.
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The modern Republican Party was formed.
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It was created to deal with two immigration issues: a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties for fraudulent practices
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the election of 1876 came to a stalemate as the popular votes and electoral votes contradicted each other.
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Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years
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The first restrictive law was passed in 1882 it kept pupers, criminals and convicts out.
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The American Protective Association was created it was an antiforein organization that kept roman catholics out o office in an attempto halt immigration.
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The Naturalization Act of 1906 was an act of the United States Congress that required immigrants to learn English in order to become naturalized citizens
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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s
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Until the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, Indians occupied an unusual status under federal law. Some had acquired citizenship by marrying white men. Others received citizenship through military service, by receipt of allotments, or through special treaties or special statutes. But many were still not citizens, and they were barred from the ordinary processes of naturalization open to foreigners. Congress took what some saw as the final step on June 2, 1924 and granted citizenship to all Native A
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The 1795 Act differed from the 1790 Act by increasing the period of required residence from two to five years in the United States, by introducing the Declaration of Intention requirement, or "first papers", which created a two-step naturalization process, and by conferring the status of citizen and not natural born citizen.
