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after this act was put in effect farming for Souther Blacks had had some dificulties in plantation economy that offered little chance of advancement. While a few blacks were lucky enough to purchase land, most were sharecroppers, tenant farmers, or farm labors, barely subsiding from year to year.
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A law that restrictted the immigration of Chinese, and prohibited the Chinese from becoming a citizen. This was important because this law gave many few chinese the chance of migrating to the US.
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this event created a huge demand for workers in northern factories, many southern blacks took this opportunity to leave the oppressive economic conditions in the south.
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Beginning of a mass movement of southern blacks into the North. the motivation was the desire to escape oppressive economic conditions in the south and the great of chance of bigger prosperity in the North.
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800,000 blacks left the south, followed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930s. Due to better economic opportunities in the North.
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Over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities.
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by this time congress repealed all exclusion acts, as a result only 105 chinese were allowed to enter the US a year. And it gave foreign-born chinese the right to seek naturalization.
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A limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the US, with a maximum of 20,000 people from any one country.
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the Chinese exclusion act came to its expire date.
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An act that is a ten year extension after the expiration of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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The act established a “flexible” worldwide cap on family-based, employment-based, and diversity immigrant visas. The act further provides that visas for any single foreign state in these categories may not exceed 7 percent of the total available.