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This Act restricted immigration to any alien that was a free white citizen and had lived in the U.S for 2 years. This prevented indentured servants, slaves and non-whites from immigrating.
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Act which allowed the president to deport any alien, legal or not, if they are judged to be a threat.
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This federal law prohibited further importation of slaves into the country, while still keeping the act of slavery legal. This rapidly expanded the system of domestic trade present in the country at the time.
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A great famine in Ireland spurned the immigration of over 1 million immigrants over the course of 20 years to America.
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This peace treaty between the U.S and Mexico served to award the U.S with a wide exxpanse of Mexican land and end the war. Mexican citizens living on this land were given a year to either become citizens and remain, or leave their land behind
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Act signed by Chester A. Arthur which prohibited the immigration of all Chinese workers.
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Ellis Island would become the obiquitous port of passage to New York, where many European immigrants would pass through to enter America.
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Much like the Alien and Sedition Act, this classified Anarchists and a few other groups as inadmissable to the U.S.
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The counter to Ellis Island, Angel Island served as a place for immigrants to be detained, questioned and ultimately deported from the country.
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State legislation which prohibited the purchase of land by aliens ineligble for citizenship, rather making them lease out the land for a period no longer than 3 years.
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Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 to add to the lists of persons disallowed from immigrating as well as requiring that all immigrants over the age of 16 be literate in at least one language.
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This act served to grant Puerto Ricans American citizenship, so that they could be conscripted by the U.S to participate in WW1.
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Post WW1 Act which placed numerical limitations on immigration into the U.S to combat the mass that arrived in the aftermath of the war.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of this Executive Order allowed the relocation of 112,000 Japanese-Americans into ten internment camps on the west coast.
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Signed by George H. W. Bush in 1990, this act served to increase the amount of immigrants recieved by the country by 700,000. As well as offering 10,000 permanent visas for affluent immigrants looking to invest in the country.
