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States could determine how a person becomes a citizen.
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Excluded non-white people from naturalizing.
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Limited travel in and out of states for African-Americans and required supervision from white people.
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United States government asserted the ability to naturalize immigrants.
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American colonization society aimed to send free African-Americans to West Africa.
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Reject America's idea to send free African-Americans to West Africa.
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Missouri passed black laws that restricted free African-Americans from migrated to the state.
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This act denied U.S. citizenship to indigenous Americans and forcibly relocated them.
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This treatise proclaimed that free African-Americans could not be removed from their state or the United States
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Local courts would expedite the naturalization process for white Germans and Irish immigrants
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In an attempt to grow immigration in the West, states gave immigrants who intended on becoming citizens voting rights.
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100,000 Mexicans became U.S. citizens after the U.S. took 55% of Mexico in the war.
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The United States supreme court ruled that African-Americans were not U.S. citizens.
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This act gave birthright citizenship to everyone except Indigenous Americans.
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This act allowed African-Americans to be naturalized.
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Puerto Ricans could become United States citizens by moving to U.S. mainland and applying for citizenship.
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Congress gave citizenship to citizens of Puerto Rico
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U.S. Women gained the right to vote through the 19th Amendment
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Permitted Asian WW1 veterans to apply for U.S. citizenship.
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Provided a pathway for nearly three million immigrants.