Chinese immigration and african american emigration - Kyle Hill

By KyleHill27

  • Chinese exclusion act

    this event was important because it provided absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration.

  • Start of Geary act

    This was important because it extened the Chinese exclusion act for about 10 years.

  • Start of AfricanAmerican immagration

    Started African American movement out of the south to expansion of race

  • 800,000 African Americans leave the south

    slowly starts movement of many African Americans

  • End of Geary act

    Chinese exclusion/geary act ends which caused congress to come up with a new idea for immagration.

  • 398,000 African Americans leave south

    more African Americans leave so more immagration occurs.

  • 1940-1960 3,348,000 African Americans leave south

    Shows a huge amount of African Americans to leave south and expand more into the US.
  • Period: to

    3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities

    Shows a huge amount of African Americans to leave south and expand more into the US.

  • Congress repeals all exclusion acts

    leaves only a limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization.

  • Immagration act passed

    limits of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States

  • Immagration act becomes effective

    allows little amounts of people to enter the US from the western hemisphere

  • Immagration act of 1990