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The potato famine in Ireland causes 1.5 million Irish people to America. Because of their Catholosism they are discriminated against.
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The gold rush influences immigration from China, and Eastern Americans. The Foreign Miners' Tax is imposed, but focuses mostly on the Chinese.
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The Chinese Exclusion act prohibits any Chinese who do not already have family in America from immigrating here.
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After President McKinley is assasinated by a Polish man, the Anarchist Exclusion Act is put into place which can bar people from entering the U.S. based on their political beliefs.
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This law prohibits noncitizens from owning land. This law provides the model for other states to follow.
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In order to enter into the United States, an immigrant must be able to read 40 words in a certain language, and prohibits immigration from Asia (excluding the Phillipines and Japan).
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This act limits annual European immigration to 3% of population already present in the United States.
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This act further limits the percent of European immigrants to 2%.
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This act prohibits most immigration from Asia including wives and children of US citizens of Asian ancestry.
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The annual immigration ceiling of 150,000 is made permanent. 70% of the 150,000 is made for immigrants from Northern and Western Europe, and 30% for Southern and Eastern Europe. There is still no immiration from Asia allowed at all.
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Many Mexicans, almost 500,000 were sent back to Mexico regardless of their citizenship status during the Great Depression era.
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Because of WWII, Philipinos are now reconsidered to be US citizens so they can be involved in the draft. Japanese internment camps evacuate 112,000 Japanese into 10 camps.
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The ceiling is set at 290,000 for Eastern and Western hemispheres.
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The goal of this act was to make it difficult for undocumented people to find work.
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This act increases amount of annual immigrants to 700,000. 10,000 permanent visas are offered to immigrants who can invest 1 mil to urban areas and 500,000 to rural areas.