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protests England's limiting naturalization of foreigners in the colonies.
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Reservations are established for Native Americans. Policies were also created with how to handle each tribe as an independent nation.
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" to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization"
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Established the first law of US Citizenship. Allows any free white person of "good character" who has been living in the United States for 2 years or longer, to apply for citizenship.
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provides citizenship to every inhabitant living in the territory annexed to the Unites States following the Mexican War.
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Supreme Court declares blacks are not citizens of the United States in Dred Scott v. Sanford
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abolished slavery, still does not grant citizenship to formerly enslaved people the full rights of citizenship
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All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens and are guaranteed "equal protection of the laws".
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naturalization rights are extended to former African slaves not born in the United States. However, Asian immigrants are excluded from citizenship
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any children born in the United Staes regardless of the race or the citizenship of their parents, is an American citizen.
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Japan would limit emigration to a certain category of business and professional men. United States in return desegrated Japanese students from white students in San Franciso Schools.
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Citizenship is granted to inhabitants of Puerto Rico.
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first generation Japanese are ineligible for citizenship subsequently they cannot apply for naturalization.
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A bill is signed by President Calvin Coolidge that Native Americans have full citizenship.
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Repeals the previous Exclusion Act of 1882, establishing a quota for Chinese immigrants and makes it so they are now eligible for U.S. citizenship.
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every individual, regardless of race, is eligible for naturalization.