Immigrants

By dannyvichi
  • Period: to

    MOre than 10 million immigrants came to the United States.

    They were called the "Old Immigrants", most of them were from Europe.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration
  • Period: to

    12 million immigrants arrived on U.S. shores.

    By the 1900s about 60% of the people living the 12 largest cities were foreign-born or had a foreign-porn parents.

  • Exclusion act expired in 1892

    Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act

  • The Geary Act

    Extended the Chinese Exclusion Act

  • The first large movements of Blacks during World War I

    When 454,000 black southerners moved north.

  • Another 800,000 blacks left the south

    followed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930s.
  • Period: to

    3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities.

  • Congress repealed all the exclusion acts,

    leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization

  • Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1965

  • Western Asian Hempisphere

    a limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States

  • The Immigration Act of 1990.

    Provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965.