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The first successful colony was established it was called Jamestown. There were many deaths but they did maintain steady crops of tobacco and cash crops.
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African Americans were borught over to be used as slaves and as indentured servants.
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It restricted to U.S. citizenship to " free white persons" with a minimum residency in the United States of 5 years. A few years later it was raised to 14 years.
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The California Gold Rush drawn many people from within the United States along with Latin America, Europe, Australia, and China.
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African American gained citizenship in the United States
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The Chinese Exclusion Act allowed the U.S. to limit greatly the immigration from China and was intended to last 10 years. This law was repealed on December 17, 1943.
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Three large ships landed on the first day and 700 immigrants passed over the docks. Most of the immigrants came from Europe.
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This act limited the number of immigrant to 3% of each nationality present in the U.S.
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The border patrol was founded for the prevention of illegal drugs coming from Mexico entering the United States and Canada.
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The INS was created to merge and establish immigration and naturalization policies.
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This act allowed the natural children, non-asian spouses, adopted children of military personnel to enter the United States after WWII.
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The act put a quota on Filipinos and Indians at 100 were allowed to immigrate to the United States each year.
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The act was to investigate persons suspected to engaging in acts of "totalitarian dictatorship".
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Amended the Immigration and Nationality Act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for admission or deportable due to terrorist activities
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Federal states the an alien over the age of 14 are required to register with Federal Goverenment and have doucments with them at all times. SB 1070 added that if they don't have their papers it is a misdemeanor.
