Immagration

By kayla_olson

  • 1790

    It passed a law difining who could become a citizen if a person was not born here: citizenship was possible only for someone who was a free white person.

  • 1880 and 1920

    one of the heaviest periods of immagration in american histoy came between the 19=880 and the 1920 when some 25 million immagrents arrived.

  • the chinese exclusion act of 1882

    in 1882 congress responded by passing the chinese act it said that no chinese laborer could enter the U.S. for 10 years.

  • the quota avt of 1921

    Congress sets up quotas favoring immagrants from north western europe the immagration act of 1924 expands the quotq system immagration from any country is limmited to 2 percent of its total numbers in the 1890 census.

  • immagration act of 1924

    the immagration act of 1924 introduced a quota system by contry each contreys immagrants were limmited to 2 percent of foreign- born residents from that country listed in the U.S. census of 1890.