immigration

By hoperogers

  • immigration

    english colonists land may,24 at jamestown,virginia under the patent of the london company

  • 1619 jamestown

    at jamestown, 20 blocks were landed to be sold as indentured servants

  • 1620 mayflower

    the mayflower anchors off plymouth and the colonists from england begin to disenbark

  • 1786

    The U.S. establishes first Native American reservation and policy of dealing with each tribe as an independent nation.
    Native American

  • 1790

    The first U.S. census takes place. The English are the largest ethnic group among the 3.9 million people counted, though nearly one in five Americans are of African heritage.

  • 1808

    Congress bans importation of slaves.

  • 1845

    Potato crop fails in Ireland sparking the Potato Famine which kills one million and prompts almost 500,000 to immigrate to America over the next five years.

  • 1849

    America’s first anti-immigrant political party, the Know-Nothing Party forms, as a backlash to the increasing number of German and Irish immigrants settling in the United States.

  • 1876

    California Senate committee investigates the “social, moral, and political effect of Chinese immigration.

  • 1880

    As America begins a rapid period of industrialization and urbanization, a second immigration boom begins. Between 1880 and 1920, more than 20 million immigrants arrive. The majority are from Southern, Eastern and Central Europe, including 4 million Italians and 2 million Jews. Many of them settle in major U.S. cities and work in factories

  • 1900

    Congress establishes a civil government in Puerto Rico and the Jones Act grants U.S. citizenship to island inhabitants. U.S. citizens can travel freely between the mainland and the island without a passport.

  • 1917

    Xenophobia reaches new highs on the eve of American involvement in World War I. The Immigration Act of 1917 establishes a literacy requirement for immigrants entering the country and halts immigration from most Asian countries.

  • 1924

    limits the number of immigrants allowed into the United States yearly through nationality quotas. Under the new quota system, the United States issues immigration visas to 2 percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States at the 1890 census.

  • 1965

    The Immigration and Nationality Act overhauls the American immigration system. The Act ends the national origin quotas enacted in the 1920s which favored some racial and ethnic groups over others.