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Alien and Sedition Acts
Four laws that limited rights of immigrants -
Chinese Exclusion Act
A law was passed because of complaints from West Coast workers that Chinese immigrants were threatening their white purity and driving down their wages so they were banned from being citizens of America until 1943. -
The US and Japan Sign the Gentleman's Agreement
The japanese agreed to the US's conditions that they could only give passports to Japanese people who needed to go to America for business and professional men. In turn Pres. Roosevelt agreed to stop the segregation between the white and Japanes people in San Francisco. -
Immigration Act of 1917
Among the immigrants who were banned, the Immigration Law also banned homosexual immigrants, idiots, feeble-minded persons (immigrants), criminals and eplieptic immigrants, insane immigrants, alcoholic immigrants, professional begging immigrants, mentally or physically defective immigrants, polygamist and anarcist immigrants, and illiterate immigrants who were over the age of sixteen. -
War Brides Act
This allowed spouses and adopted children of US military personnel to enter the US after WWII, which temporarily lifted the ban of Asian immigration. -
Immigration and Nationality Act
This act abolished all people from all nations the opportunity to enter the United States. -
Immigration Act of 1965
This act set strict quotas on the amount of immigrants from Latin-American nations could come to America for short and long term reasons. -
The Abolishment of 1965
The abolishment of nation-origin quotas -
The Refugee Act of 1980
Reduces the quota of refugees to 270,000 per year. -
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Granted Amnesty to illegal aliens who had resided in the US before 1982 while penalizing employers who hired illegal immigrants. -
Immigration and Reform and Control Act of 1986
Allowed immigrants to apply for legal status. -
Immigration Act of 1990
Sets an annual ceiling of 700,000 immigrants per year. -
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
Made it very easy to deport illegal aliens (immigrants)
