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gold rush
The California gold rush spurs immigration from China and extensive internal migration -
Rail Road
The Central Pacific hires Chinese laborers and the Union Pacific hires Irish laborers to construct the first transcontinental railroad, which would stretch from San Francisco to Omaha, allowing continuous travel by rail from coast to coast. -
US citzenship opens
The Naturalization Act of 1870 expands citizenship to both whites and African-Americans, though Asians are still excluded. -
china acts
The Chinese Exclusion Act restricts all Chinese immigration to the United States for a period of ten years. -
immagration laws
Congress makes "persons suffering from a loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease," those convicted of a "misdemeanor involving moral turpitude," and polygamists ineligible for immigration. Congress also establishes the Office of the Superintendent of Immigration within the Treasury Department. -
us burea of immigration
US burea of immigration opened Ellis island for procceing immigration -
Sent back
in the US people were sent back to there home country for a bad medical or having a crimalnal record -
law
After President William McKinley is shot by a Polish anarchist (September 6, 1901) and dies a week later (September 14, 1901), Congress enacts the Anarchist Exclusion Act, which prohibits the entry into the US of people judged to be anarchists and political extremists. -
marrage act
The Expatriation Act declares that an American woman who marries a foreign national loses her citizenship. -
gentlemens agreement
Under an informal "Gentlemen's Agreement," the United States agrees not to restrict Japanese immigration in exchange for Japan's promise to voluntarily restrict Japanese emigration to the United States by not issuing passports to Japanese laborers. In return, the US promises to crack down on discrimination against Japanese-Americans, most of whom live in California