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This act said that no new slaves were allowed to be imported to the United States. This act started the trend to abolishing slavery. -
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This was an agreement passed in 1820 regulating the slavery in the western territories. It restricted slavery in the former Loisiana Territory. -
Click here for more infoThis act was signed by President Andrew Jackson. This act approved him to negotiate with the Indians in the South for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.
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Click here for more infoThe Trail of Tears was a forced relocation of Native American Nations from southeastern parts of the Unitedb States. This followed the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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Click here for more InfoThis was a period of great starvation. During the famine about 1 million people died and a million more were emigrated from Ireland which led there population to be between 20 and 25%.
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Click here for more infoThe Gold Rush was when Gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutters Mill in Coloma California. This increased population in California tremendously. Also this brought many Chinese to immigrate to California for cheap labor.
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Click here for more infoThis was a package of five bills paseed in the US which ended a 4 year confrotation between the slave states and the free states.
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Click here for more InfoThis act allows any male over the age of 21 and the head of a family to claim up to 160 acres of land and improve it within 5 years or purchase land at a small fee.
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Click here for more infoThis is an executive order issued to the executive agencies of the US by president Abraham Lincoln. It abolishes slavery and permits African American men to join the Union Army,
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Click here for more infoThis act dissolves many Indian Reservations in the US. This also provided that the government would purchase Indian land and open it up for settlement of non-Indians.
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The U.S. and Japan formed a "Gentlemen's Agreement" in which Japan ends issuance of passports to laborers and the U.S. agrees not to prohibit Japanese immigration. -
Click here for more infoThis act repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Chinese establishes quotas for Chinese immigrants, and makes them elgible for U.S. citizenship.
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Click here for more infoThis act allows individuals of all races to be elgibile for naturalization.
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Click here for more infoThis act was a major important legislation in the U.S. that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.
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Click here for more infoThis act reformed the United States immigration law. It legalizes illegal aliens living in the U.S. unlawfully.
