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Act of 1819
the congress enacted the first federal legislation law. They first establish the continuing reporting immigration to the U.S and set nourishment rules for passenger on ships to the united states -
Act of 1864
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Act of 1857
Dres Scott declares free africans noon citizens -
Act of 1864
Congress centralized the control over immigration under the secretary of state with a commisioner -
Act of 1868
African Americans gain citizenship -
Act of 1875
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1875
decision declared all state laws governing immigration unconstitutional -
Chinese exclusion act
Suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years and barred chines in the United States form citizenship -
Act of 1890
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Act of 1891
MOre classes of aliens restricted including those who were assisted by others for their passage -
Act 0f 1906
Procedural safeguard enacted naturalization, knowledge of english become a basic requirement -
Act of 1910
Dillingham comgress assumes inferiority of new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and suggested a literacy test to retrict their entry -
Act of 1922
Japanese are ineligible for citizenship -
Act of 1929
Quotas of the 1924 act are made permanent -
1940
Finger printing and registering of all aliens -
1943
the Chinese exclusion laws were repealed. Basis of the bracero program established with importation of agricultural workers form north and south america -
Displaced persons act
Gave priority to baltic states refugees admitted as quota immigrants. Technical provisions discriminated against catholics and jews -
Nationality act
Eliminated race as a bar to immigration or citizenship -
1953
The 1948 refugee law expanded to admit 200,00 above the exosting limit -
Arizona immigration law
The law -
Alabama law