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Important events concerning immigration

By tajt30

  • Naturalization act of 1790

    Any person being an alien or not may now be admitted as a citizen of the United States as long as they are white.

  • Alien and Sedation Act of 1978

    This act allowed the preseident to deport any immigrants that were deemed dangerous, and also changed the legalization time to 14 years so that it was harder to gain citizenship since the majority of the immigrants voted Republican.

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    This oficially ended the Mexican-American war, and extened citizenship to over 80,000 Mexicans living in the American Southwest.

  • Homestead Act

    Act allowing immigrants to come and have free large plots of land given that they promise to live on and develop them for at least five years.

  • Naturalization Act of 1870

    This act allowed free whites and blacks to gain citizenship to the United States.

  • Page Act

    This act created a law that made it legal to deny immigrants because they are "undesireable."

  • Chinese exclusion act

    This act named any immigrants coming from Asia that were coming to do contract work or prostitution undesireable.

  • 1891 immigration act

    This was a revision to the 1882 immigration act that gave the task of inspecting all individuals coming into the United States to the United States government.

  • Immigration act of 1903

    This act added onto the law alredy in place from 1891. It created 4 classes that were inadmissable the anarchists, epileptics, beggers, and prostitutes.

  • Immigratiobn act of 1924

    This law revised the previous number of people allowed into the United States from 3% of the people from each indiviual country that inhabitied the United States down to 2%.

  • Nationality act of 1940

    This act was the predecessor to the act that created the "green card." It essentially made it so that any aliens had to register in order to receive admission to the United States,

  • Immigration and nationality act of 1952

    This act further limited the citizenship granted in the United States. Those appling for citizenship had to be background tested and pass in order to receive citizenship.

  • Immigration and naionality act of 1965

    This act officially abolished any discrimination on the decision of who got admitted for citizenship. This act finally abolished the hold on the Asian immigrants.

  • Immigration reform and control act of 1985

    This act was one that affected the workforce and how immigrants were looked at. This made it illegal to knowingly hire any illegal immigrant. It also legalized some of the immigrants that were in the United States before it was put into place, and also legalized some of seasonal immigrations.

  • Immigration act of 1990

    This act made it so that now 700,000 people may be admitted to have U.S. citizenship. It also took out homosexuality as grounds for not being admitted citizenship.

  • Creation of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

    This orginization was put together in order to increase national security, prevent the immigration logs from backing up, and to improve the overall customer services.