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- English colonists land at Jamestown, VA
- Under order of the London Company
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- African Americans were taken and sold at Jamestown as indentured servants
- 20 first African Americans in America
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- Colonists from England land in Plymouth on the Mayflower
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- The U.S. establishes first Native American reservations
- The U.S. has to deal with each tribe separately
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- Federal U.S. government requires two years of residency for naturalization
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- U.S. Congress bans immigration of slaves
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- The potato famine in Ireland
- Kills one million Irish people
- 500,000 Irish immigrants immigrate to America
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- California Gold Rush sparks
- Chinese immigrants immigrate to America
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- California Senate committee investigate effects on Chinese immigration
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- Italy began to have a downfall (economy, crops, and climate)
- Mass immigration from Italy to America
- Nearly four million Italian immigrants
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- Congress establishes civil government in Puerto Rico
- James Act grants U.S. citizenship to Islanders
- U.S. citizens freely willing to travel to Island
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- U.S. enters WW1
- Anti-German hate along Americans
- American Germans are segregated
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- Immigration Act of 1924 establishes
- Fixes quotas & eliminates Far East immigration
- President Coolidge gives Native Americans full citizenship
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- Immigration Act of 1965 abolishes quota systems with immigration limits
- Act reunites immigrant families and gave jobs to the immigrants
