Immigration of the Chinese and African American Emigration

By taytay0517

  • Chinese exclusion act was signed

    This act provided a 10 year granteed end to chinese immigration

  • the exclusion act exspired

    The exclusion act expired
    They entended it for 10 more years in the Geary Act.

  • The Geary Act was made permanent

  • World War 1

    first large move ment of blacks 454,000 blacks moved to the north

  • The great migration

    it was a mass movement of 5 million southern blacks to the north and west due to high demand of workers

  • The Geary Act stopped regulating

    the post war immigration increased so the government game up with differents ways to regulate. Example through quotas and requirements through national origin.

  • In the 1920's

    over 800,000 blacks left

  • In the 1930's

    In this time period 398,000 blacks moved to the north and west

  • World War 2

    Migrants continured to move north but many headed west to Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and seattle

  • In the 1940's

    from 1940 to the end of the great migration in 1960 3,348,000 blacks left to the north and west for jobs and a better life

  • Congress Reappealed all of the exclusion acts

    Doing this it gave chinese a yearly limit of 105 chinese and gave foreign born chinese the right to seek naturalization

  • The Great Migration Ended

    The great migration ended

  • Congress passed the immigration law of 1965

    They passed the law

  • Immigration law of 1968 became effective

    The immigration law became effective with these laws
    -a limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States, with a maximum of 20,000 from any one country.