Chinese Immigration and African-American Emigration

  • Chinese Exclusuion Act

    The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Arthur in the spring of 1882. It had provided an absoulute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. It was the first time that Federal law perscribed entry of an ethic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act Expires

    After the exclusion act expired it had continued on for another 10 years under the name of the Geary Act. It had added restrictions by requiring Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence without one they would be faced with deportation.
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    Geary ACt regulates Chinese

    With increased postwar immigration, congress adopted new means for regulation: quotas and requirements pertaining to national regulation.
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    The Great Migration

    The mass movement of about 5 millio southern blacks to the north and west
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    Black Movement

    800,000 blacks left the south
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    More Movement

    398,000 blacks moved from the south
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    Movement

    3,348,000 blacks left the south for nothern and western cities
  • Exclusion Acts Get Repealed

    Congress Repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization.