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African slaves were brought to America to work for the settlers in Jamestown on their crops.
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The Indians had filed a complaint against the Engish settlers, hoping for King Phillip to follow through with promises given in treaties, but the English fought against the Indians and took over their land.
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Benjamin Franklin was a racist. He dispised all races except for whites. He catagorized each race with whites at the top and blacks at the bottom.
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The Naturalization Act was estblished to allow good standing white people to apply for citizenship in the US.
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The US put in a policy to stop the importation of slavery.
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This act was established to keep records of ships carrying passengers to the US.
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This act was to encourage immigration into the US by contracted. labor.
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This exluded the Chinese to be banned from entering the US and lasted for 10 years.
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This act was revised by President Roosevelt to require would-be citizens to learn the English language.
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This act was geared to women. If they married a man of another nationality, they list their citizendship to the US until the marriage it terminated.
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This act was established to limit the number of aliens into the US.
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This act limited the amount of immigrants into the US by the national quota.
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The border patrol was fist established to help with the inspection stations between the borders.
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This act officially ended the ban of Asians. It also refined the citizenship laws and had a more refined way of establishing citizenship.
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This is the first federal law to punish employers with undocumented illegal aliens and provided sanctuary for illegal aliens that were already in the US.
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This act was established after the terroists attacks on 9/11. This allows the government to do searches on homes, phone records, etc without a search warrant or the acknowledgment of the owner.
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This law allowed law enforcement to question Mexicans about their citizenship. There are also enforced state penalties if immigration laws are not followed.
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Obama makes announcement to provide amnesty to parents of US citizens and legally documented aliens to stay in the US temporarily.
