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Immigration patterns changed alot because more immigrants came into the U.S. from Eastern Europe. Back then the most immigrants came from European Countries.
Now the majority came from North and South America -
First set foot on U.S. soil
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Between 1800's and 1880's more than 10 million immigrants came to the U.S.
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This act implied chinese who had already left the country to obtain certificates to re-enter
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Chinese exclusion act was passed by congress and signed by President Chester
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Act of skilled and unskilled laberers and chinese employed in mining made it difficult for people to prove they were not laboreres
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Exclusion act expired but congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary act
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Immigration restiction league imposed a literacy test on all immigrants
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1915 is the year the great migration began
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Congress passed the Immigration Act
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a limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the U.S
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Martin Luther King is assasinated
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This drug epidemic lasts untill 1994. This drug destroys black families and communities
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Provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965