Immigration Timeline By: Jennilee

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

    These four laws limited or stopped the rights of immigrants.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Complaints by workers that wages were going down because of chinese immagrants cause chinese immigrants to not be eligible to become american citizens every ten years until 1943.
  • Alien Contract Labor Laws

    These laws prohibited corporations and individuals from paying the transportation costs for immaigrants to come into the US.