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The Chinese Exclusion Act was approved
It was the first law limiting immigration into the United States, signed by President Chester A. Arthur.
For the first time, Federal law forbid entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities. -
Geary Act was made permanent
When the exclusion act expired in 1892, Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. This extension added limitations by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, he/she faced deportation. -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about 5 million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960. During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities. Their motivation for migrating was a combination of the desire to escape oppressive economic conditions in the south and the promise of greater prosperity in the north. -
First large movement of blacks
The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north. -
More blacks leaving the south
In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south, -
Following after the 1920s; 398,000 left
398,000 blacks left the south in the 1930s. -
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Between 1940 and 1960
Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities. -
Congress revoked all the exclution acts
By doing this, they left a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization. -
Congress Passed the Immigration Act of 1965
The so-called national origin system, with various modifications, lasted until Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1965. Successful in July 1, 1968.
Skill and the need for political asylum determined admission. (Note: Political Asylum = When they are too frightened to live in their own country so they go to another country. -
Immigration Act of 1990
The act provided to be the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965. The act established a “flexible” worldwide cap on family-based, employment-based, and diversity immigrant visas.
