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Congress passed legislation that limited the number of chinese that were allowed to come into the us to 15 people per ship.
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The hayes administration appointed james b angell to negotioate the new treaty reguarding immigration with the chinese government.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
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Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act.
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Merchants in china boycotted on the grounds of an act that was established. The message was supposed to be anti american.
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This is when Frican AMericans migrated from the south were there was a lot of discrimination to the north where the working conditions were much better.
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White rioters rampage through african american neighborhoods, leaving atleast 39 dead.
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This was the migration of more than 5 million african american people from the south to the north. It was much larger and of a different character from the first great migration. They were attempting to escape more segregation as well.
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leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and 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 United States, with a maximum of 20,000 from any one country.
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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.