America History of Immigration

By s36733
  • 1700 Hundreds

    People would move to america during this time because of religious freedoms, slave trade, and economic opputunity.
  • Period: to

    Immagration history

  • Immigration policy

    They had made the immigration policy which was used as a political weapon.
  • Slave trade outlawed

    Slave trade was outlawed, but that didnt stop people from trading slaves illegaly.
  • Mass Immigration

    The number of immigrents doubled from 1821 to 1840.
  • Efforts to help Immigrants

    During this time they tried to help immigrants to settle in.
  • Anti Immigration started

    The Know Nothing Movement wanted to increase limitations on Immigration.
  • Advances In tech.

    Most notociably in moblilty with trains, it increased the industry.
  • Regulations on control were put on place

    This made it to where immigrents had to have some knowlage of english, litracy, and had to be a skilled worker.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    The Chinese was still exculded, and was planned for ten years, but then was renwed.
  • Pressure from Mexico

    This made many illigal mexicans to return to mexico.