Immigration

By Monique Dabalos
  • Period: to

    10 Million Immigrants come to the United States

  • American Workers Oppose Chinese Laborers

  • Opening of Ellis Island for Euorpean Immigrants

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Euorpean Immigrants Arrive to U.S. Shores

    60% of people living in the nation's 12 largest cities were foregnborn or had foreign-born parents

  • Geary Act Made Permanent

  • Period: to

    five million southern blacks move to the north and west

  • 800,000 blacks left the south

  • More blacks leave the South

  • Period: to

    over 3,348,000 blacks leave the south for northern and western cities

  • Congress repeals all exclusion acts

  • Congress passed the Immigration Act