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Created a two step naturalization process that gave people the title of citizen and not natural born citizen. This act made clear that naturalized citizenship was on for "free white persons."
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Many chinese immigrants came to California and worked as miner's. California imposed a foreign miner's tax primarily aimed at the Chinese immigrants.
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The Homestead Act provided for homes for the poor and the immigrants. An immigrant had to move to a piece of land, live there for five years and improve it. The land was free or of low cost. This act brought many new immigrants to the U.S.
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Many chinese and irish immigrants came to the United States for jobs working on the railroad.
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Ellis Island opened in New York Harbor with 12 million immigrants passing through over the coming 30 years. Most people coming through were Europeans.
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Processed and deported immigrants at San Francisco Bay. Most of these immigrants were Asian.
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This act restricted immigration in the United States. The restricted number of immigrants were 3% of the number of people living in country in 1910.
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This act made it illegal to encourage or teach the desirability to overthrow the government.This act required all aliens in the U.S. to file a statement of their personal,occupational, and political status. The main goal of this act was to weaken the Communuist Party.
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This act increased the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year to 700,00. Rich still had a much easier time immigrating than the poor for the fact that visas were offered to immigrants willing to invest money.
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This act built up border enforcement and also stated that aliens did not receive benefits living in the United States.
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The point of this act was to strengthen security and expand the powers of law enforcement agencies. The terrorist attacks brought this act into play.
