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Mechanized Elevator created by Elisha Otis
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employment plumited for the chinese
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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
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Immigration Restriction League founded
impose a literacy test on all immigrants -
five mil. southern blacks to north and west
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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Exclusion Acts repealed
Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization