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Chinese exclusion act signed
The first significant law restricting immigrating into the U.S. Signed by Pres. Chester A. Arthur. The act made it so there was an absolute 10-year suspension on Chinese labor immigration. The act expired in 1892 -
Geary Act
An extension of the Chinese exclusion act, made permanent in 1902, required all Chinese residents to register for and then get a certificate of residence, not following the act would consquence would be deportation. This act helped to regulate Chinese immigration, until the 1920's. -
Geary Act made permanent
This date marks when the Geary Act was marked permanent. -
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Span of WWI
During the span of WWI, The north was in need of more workers for factories and many southern blacks took this as their opportunity. -
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Great Migration
A huge movement of 5 million southern blacks to both the North and the West. Majority moved to either Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, or New York, New York. First large wave was during World War I, and then another 800,000 in 1920, and many more huge movements continued -
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Large wave of immigration
Over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities. All to escape oppressive economic conditions in the south and to reach the promise of greater prosperity in the north -
Congress repeals all exclusion acts
Congress repealed all the exclusion acts and then left a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization. -
Immigration Act of 1965
Condensed the amount of immigrants allowed into the U.S. from outside the Western hemhisphere, the limit being 170,000, and a maximum of 20,000 from each country. -
Immigration act of 1990
Provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965. Allowed for a “flexible” worldwide cap on family-based, employment-based, and diversity immigrant visas. As well as providing visas for any single foreign state in these categories that may not exceed 7 percent of the total available