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Chinese Act
Chinese Exclusion Act was passed and signed by President Chester A. Arthur; 10-year moratorium in Chinese labor immigration -
Requirements
Few nonlaborers who sought entry, and obtain certification from Chinese Government that qualified to immigrate; a certain group found it difficult and that nonlaborers and the act defined excludables as "skilled and unskilled laborers & Chinese employed in mining". -
Newer Requirements
The Chinese had already entered the country, if they left the United Stated, they had to re-qualify to enter the US. Congress refused the State and Federal courts to grant citizenship to the Chinese. -
Expiration Date
The act expired in 1882, then extened for ten years by the Geary Act. -
Restrictions
By the Geary Act, made permanent in 1902, restrictoins were requiring each Chinese resident to register and get a certificate or residence. If he or she didn't have a certificate, they face being deported. -
The Great Migration
Mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 & 1960. Waved the majority of migrants continued to move North though many headed West. -
Emancipation
Southern rural blacks had suffered in a plantation economy that offered little chance of advancement. Blacks were lucky enough to purchase land. -
The Geary Act
Regulated Chinese immigration, with postwar immigration, adopted new means for regulation; quoats & requirements pertaining to national origin. -
Large Movement
Between 1940-1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south and moved to the north and western cities. -
Repealing
Repealed all exclusion acts and left a yearly limit of the Chinese, and gave foreign-born the right to seek naturalization. -
Immigration Act
NAtural origin system with various modifications lasted until Congress passed the act. -
From one counrty to the US
Limiting of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the US. A maximum of 20,000 from any country. Skill and political asylum determined admission would be needed. -
The Immigration Act II
Provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965. Established a 'flexible' worldwide on family-based, the act further provides that visas for any foreign in state in these categories may not exceed 7 percent of total avaiable. -
Pennsylvania
Railroad needed workers so badly that it paid the travel expenses of 12,000 blacks.The Illinois Central Railroad, along with many steel mills, factories, and tanneries, similarly provided free railroad passes for blacks. -
Job for the poor
Migrating for job opportunities, blacks also moved north in order to escape the oppressive conditions of the south -
The End
One of the largest migration in the history of the United States, chamged the North, South, and even the entire nation.