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act that was passed in the uited states that made it very hard for chinese immigrants to get into the united states.
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They extended the act for 10 years until it was finally made permenant in 1902
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The movement of large amounts of black amerians moving from the south in to western,eastern and northern states.
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The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north.
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When World War I created a huge demand for workers in northern factories, many southern blacks took this opportunity to leave the oppressive economic conditions in the south.
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By the end of the great migration most in the movement moved to states on the western coast of the united states. States like orgean,washington, and california played a big part in the great migration.
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A limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States.
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In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south