Chinese and Great Migration

By kelseyhowells

  • Mechanized Elevator created by Elisha Otis

  • employment plumited for the chinese

  • 10 mil. + immigrants came to the US

    most were Protestants from northwestern Europe

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration

  • Chinese Exclusion Act updated

    Chinese who had already entered the country. If they left the United States, they had to obtain certifications to re-enter

  • arriving on US shores

    12 mil. imm. arrived on US shores.

  • Ellis Island opened

  • Immigration Restriction League founded

    impose a literacy test on all immigrants

  • five mil. southern blacks to north and west

  • black migration cont.

    the migrants continued to move North but many of them headed west to Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. - See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/great-migration-1915-1960#sthash.sIdEBx0Q.dpuf

  • Exclusion Acts repealed

    Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization