Evolution of National Citizenry

By carliesmith17

  • Bill of Rights

    outlines basic rights under the new government

  • Naturalization Act of 1790

    provides first rules to be followed by the United States in granting citizenship to "free white poeple."

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    extends citienship to all inhabitants living in the territory annexed to teh United States following the Mexican War.

  • Thirteenth Amendment

    abolishes slavery (didn't grant full rights of citizenship)

  • Hart-Celler Act

    abolishes the national origins quota system, replacing it with a preference system that focuses on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents.

  • Fourteenth Amendment

    all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens and guranteed "equal protection of laws."

  • Naturalization Act of 1870

    extends naturalization rights to former African slaves not born in the U.S; Asian immigrants remain excluded from citizenship

  • Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

    first U.S. law to ban immigration based on race or nationality; it would be repealed in 1943

  • U.S Supreme Court rules in United States v. Wong Kim Ark

    any child born in the United States, regardless of race or parents' citizenship status, is an American citizen

  • Jones-Shafroth Act

    grants U.S. citizenship to residents in Puerto Rico

  • First quota law passed

    limiting the annual number of immigrants based on country of origin.

  • Indian Citizenship Act

    extends U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans

  • Alien Registration Act

    requires all non-citizen adults to register with the government and empowers the president to deport foreigners susected of spying or a security risk

  • Immigration and Natinality Act

    eliminates race as a bar to immigration or citizen ship

  • Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

    grants amnesty to millions of individuals living in the United States who entered the country before January 1, 1982

  • USA Patriot Act

    amends the Imiigration and Nationality Act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for admission or deportation to include terrorist activities.