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Colonization New World
Colonists settled in Roanoke in 1587 in the new world. -
French and Indian War
War that seemed inevitable as the British invaded America. -
Alien Naturalization Act
Required people to have lived in the US for 14 years with completion of application. -
Homestead Act
Federal laws that gave someone land at low cost. -
Contract Labor Law
Act that prohibited importation of foreigners under contract to perform labor in the US. -
Independence Statue
Statue of Liberty was a gift from France as a symbol of freedom and democracry. -
Immigration Act
Responsibilty of enforcing immigration was assigned to the federal government. -
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
The Bureau of Immigration was the first federal government entity to standardize immigration operations in the United States. -
Ellis Island Immigration Center
Ellis Island regulated immigration during this time. People passed through the island getting medical assessments and received new names. -
Emergency Quota Act
This legislation utilized immigration statistics to determine a maximum number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States from each nation or region. -
First US Border Patrol
The job is to detect and prevent illegal aliens, terrorists from entering the United States, and to prevent illegal trafficking of people and contraband. -
Immigration Act of 1924
The 1924 Immigration Act set quotas that limited annual immigration from particular countries. -
Social Security Act
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. -
Berlin Blockade
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. -
SB 1070
The goal of 1070 is to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants.
