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National citizenship was granted, but only to free white people.
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Congress enacted deportation laws targeting people who where considered political threats to the United States.
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This Act prohibited the importation of slaves within the jurisdiction of the United States
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Authorized the confiscation of land from the Native Americans forcing them west of the Mississippi.
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Ended the war between Mexico and the United States.
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The Supreme Court stated legislation and enforcement of immigration restrictions was a matter for federal authority instead of the states
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During the Civil War Congress prevented plantation owners from replacing enslaved Africans with unfree Chinese workers.
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President Abraham Lincoln's executive order to free the slaves.
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Everyone born or naturalized in the United States is considered a U.S. citizen.
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Extended naturalization rights to Africans by denied the rights to Asians.
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Prohibited the recruitment of unfree laborers and women for "immoral purposes" into the United States. Primarily enforced against the Chinese.
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The United States was permitted to restrict Chinese immigration.
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A ten-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating into the United States.
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This act allowed the federal government to allot tribal reservation lands. Native Americans who received the allotments could gain U.S. citizenship but often lost their land.
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Created the Office of the Superintendent of Immigration in the Treasury Department.
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After the Exclusion Act expired in 1892 Congress extended another ten years in the form of the Geary Act.
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The act identified anarchists as exclusionary and arranged for their removal if detained.
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In response to the Chinese government's effort to leverage better conditions for Chinese travelers, the United States Congress extended the act. As a result, Chinese communities organized an anti-American boycott.
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Chinese merchants and students coordinate boycotts of U.S. goods and services as a protest against the Chinese Exclusion laws.
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Any American woman who marries a non-citizen immigrant man needs to take the nationality of her husband.
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President Woodrow Wilson signed the act giving United States citizenship to Puerto Ricans.
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Grants citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed and followed by laws of an immigration system that reflected the United States values.
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Requires employers to not knowingly hire anyone is not authorized to work in the United States.