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This is the time period where scientists believe Native Americans inhabited what is now known as the United States.During this time the U.S. also established the first Native American reservation and policy of dealing with each tribe as an independent nation. -
St. Augustine was the settlement of European and African-American origin in the United States. -
Jamestown, was known as the first colony in the British Empire. -
The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619 this is when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 enslaved African ashore into Jamestown VA. -
This was the landing of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, they landed in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colony the boat contained mostly English Puritans and Separatists. -
This was the first act passed in regards to citizenship in the US, This act "allowed any free white person of “good character,” who has been living in the United States for two years or longer, to apply for citizenship. Without citizenship, nonwhite residents are denied basic constitutional protections, including the right to vote, own property, or testify in court." -
After Congress prohibited the foreign importation of slaves into the United States in 1808.
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This act was put into place after many immigrants came to the US extremely sick or dying from the conditions from the boat. the act required better conditions on the ships arriving to the country. The Act also calls for ship captains to submit demographic information on passengers, creating the first federal records on the ethnic composition of immigrants to the United States. -
During this time period was when many Irish Catholics and German immigrants also come to the United States, Which then would then move out to buy land and build farms out in the midwest.
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This was the part Anti-immigrant Political party, this was formed because of the huge rush of Irish and German Immigrants settling in the US. -
This abolished slavery for good and let the African Americans be free -
This act was signed by President Chester A. Arthur which prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. Excluding from the law merchants, teachers, students, travelers, and diplomats. -
This act further dined access to the US to immigration of polygamists, people convicted of certain crimes, and the sick or diseased. The Act also created a federal office of immigration to coordinate immigration enforcement and a corps of immigration inspectors stationed at principle ports of entry.
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The Immigration Act of 1917 establishes a literacy requirement for immigrants entering the country and halts immigration from most Asian countries. This means they had to take a test to be able to enter the US and if you did not pass you were not allowed in the US. -
This amendment was a turning point for the US this Amendment gave the right to American women to vote. -
This act limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. -
The Immigration and Nationality Act overruled the American immigration system. The Act ended the national origin quotas enacted in the 1924 which favored some racial and ethnic groups over others.