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1790
Nationality Act of 1790 -
1798
Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 -
1803
Ban on "importation" of "any negro, mulatto, or any person of colour" (effective 1808) -
1830
Indian Removal Act -
1848
Treaty of Guadlupe Hidalgo -
1849
Passenger Cases -
1854
People V. Hall- denied Chinese, Native, and African Americans the status to testify in courts against whites. -
1857
Dred Scott V. Sanford -
1860
Lincoln's Administration took legal position that free blacks were American citizens. -
1863
Emancipation Proclamation -
1864
Immigration Act of 1864 -
1865
End of Civil War when Confederate states had "black codes" -
1866
Congress Passed the Civil Rights Act. (Declared all persons born or naturalized in the US were citizens of the United States and state in which they lived, therefore affirming a rule of citizenship by birth that didn't depend on race. -
1868
Burlington Treaty of 1868 14th Amendment -
1870
Naturalization Act -
1872
Chinese Educational Mission (1872-1881) -
1875
Page Law Chy Lung V Freeman -
1880
Angell Treaty of 1880 Chinese Exclusion Act -
1882
Immigration Act -
1884
Elk v. Wilkins -
1885
Foran Act of 1885 (also known as Alien Contract Labor Law) -
1887
The Dawes Allotment Act -
1888
Scott Act of 1888 -
1889
Chae Chan Ping v. United States ( also known as the Chinese Exclusion Case) -
1891
Immigration Bureau established the Immigration Act of 1891 -
1892
Geary Act Fong Yue Ting v. United States -
1894
Immigration Restriction League -
1896
Wong Wing v. United States Plessy v. Ferguson -
1898
United States v. Wong Kim Ark -
1903
Immigration Act of 1903 -
1904
Extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act -
1905
Anti-American Boycott -
1907
Expatriation Act of 1907 Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907-1908