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This act required free white people meet a two-year residency requiremnt in the colonies before becoming a citizen.
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This act allows the president to deport people deemed dangerous and increased residency requirement to 14 years.
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Banned slaves from being imported into U.S., slave trade continued long after however.
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At this time in Ireland a horrible period of diesease and mass starvation cause many Irish to emigrate to the United States.
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This act was signed in by the California legislature, the most popular immigration region for chinese. This act protected white labor against competition from chinese labor. Essentially this act highly discouraged chinese immigration at that time.
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This act offered free plots of land, up to 160 acres, to people willing to settle and farm the land. This attracted many immigrants from Europe over the next few years.
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This federal law prohibited chinese immigration for ten years.
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This act levied a 50 cent tax on all immigrants landing in any U.S. port.
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This law prohibited companies from contracting foreigners for cheaper labor.
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This act extended the ban on chinese immigration originally established by the Chinese Exclusion Act. The ban lasted 10 more years.
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This extended the previous chinese exclusion acts with no termination date.
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This act standardized the immigration process, additionally requiring some english for immigration. The act also established the Bureau of Immigration.
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This act limited immigration from each country to 3% of the number of people from that country living in the U.S. in 1910. This act severely limited immigration in countries with few people in the U.S. at that time.
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This act prohibited race from being a factor to immigration or citizenship.
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This act broadened Immigration and Nationality Act for ineligible for admission and deportable for terrorist activity.
