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Chinese Immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act was Passed.
This was a ten year period where President Chester A. Arthur pretty much they stopped Chinese Labor immigration. This was important because it almost stopped immigration and it wasn't right to not let people go where they wanted to go. -
Immigration Restriction League
This was an organization that sought to impose a literacy test on all immigrants. This organization was founded by wealthy Bostonians. -
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The Great Mirgration
This was a mas movement of about five million southern blacks to the North and West around the time from 1915 to 1960. -
Large Movements
In the 1920s there were about 800,000 blacks that left the south and headed north. This is important because slave owners in the south were getting mad because they couldn't use them for work to get money. -
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Millions on the move
During this time era there were over 3 million southern blacks that moved from the South to cities in the North and West. This was inportant because it changed the way living was back then. -
Magnuson Act
This was an important time perido because this ended the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Magnuson Act repealed by the Chinese Exclusion Act and after that immigration was to say, legal again, this allowed Chinese immigrants to become civilians.