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First set foot on U.S soil
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Immigration patterns changed dramatically because more immigrants came into the U.S from Eastern Eurpoe.
Back then the most immigrants came fromother European Countries.
Now the majority came from North and South America -
End of the big increase due to the new comers from Southern and Eastern Europe (1800's - 1900's)
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Between 1800's and 1880's more than 10 millioj immigrants came to the U.S.
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This act implied Chinese who had already left the country (U.S) to obtain certifications to re-enter.
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Chinese Exclusion Act was passes by Congress & signed by President Chester.
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Act of "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese embloyed in mining" made it difficult for people to prove they were not laborers.
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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 Restriction League imposed a literacy test on all immigrants
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A movement of about 5 million southern blacks to the North and West
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The first large movement of blacks occured during World War I. In the 1920's more tthan 800,000 blacks left the south fallowed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930's.
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Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the South for Northern and Western cities.
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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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Provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965.