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Colonists settled in Roanoke in 1587 in the new world.
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War that seemed inevitable as the British invaded America.
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Required people to have lived in the US for 14 years with completion of application.
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Federal laws that gave someone land at low cost.
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Act that prohibited importation of foreigners under contract to perform labor in the US.
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Statue of Liberty was a gift from France as a symbol of freedom and democracry.
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Responsibilty of enforcing immigration was assigned to the federal government.
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The Bureau of Immigration was the first federal government entity to standardize immigration operations in the United States.
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Ellis Island regulated immigration during this time. People passed through the island getting medical assessments and received new names.
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This legislation utilized immigration statistics to determine a maximum number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States from each nation or region.
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The job is to detect and prevent illegal aliens, terrorists from entering the United States, and to prevent illegal trafficking of people and contraband.
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The 1924 Immigration Act set quotas that limited annual immigration from particular countries.
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On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
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The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin.
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The goal of 1070 is to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants.
