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Immigration
More than 10 million imigrants came to America in search of joba and better life. Shortly afterwards between 1891 and 1910, some 12 million immigrantes arrived on U.S. Shores. -
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Record of Chinese
There was a record of Chinese living in the United States. It was the first U.S. Census notation of Chinese in America that recored the Chinese living in U.S. (The first record showed that there were three chinese) The population of Chinese increased over time. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
In the spring of 1882, Congress passed and signed by President Chester A. Arthur, to deny citizenship to people born in China. -
Ellis Island opeaning
Ellis Island opeaned due to many European immigrants who were comming to America. -
Geary Act
The Geary Act was an extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act, It was extended for 10 years. This extension, made permanent in 1902, added restrictions by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, she or he faced deportation. -
Immigration restriction league.
It was the undesireable immigrants that were coming to U.S. The unemployment was going up. It was to control the overpoplulation. -
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Great Migration
The Great Migration was the big movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960. The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north. In the 1920s, another 800,000 blacks left the south, followed by 398,000 blacks in the 1930s. Between 1940 and 1960 over 3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities. -
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The northern demand for workers
The northern demand for workers was a result of the loss of 5 million men who left to serve in the armed forces, as well as the restriction of foreign immigration. World War I was the first time since Emancipation that black labor was in demand outside of the agricultural south, and the economic promise was enough for many blacks to overcome substantial challenges to migrate. -
The Exclusion Act repealed
In 1943 Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization. -
Imigration Act of 1965
Immigration Act of 1965, A limit of 170,000 immigrants from outside the Western Hemisphere could enter the United States, with a maximum of 20,000 from any one country. -
Immigration Act of 1990
The act established a “flexible” worldwide cap on family-based, employment-based, and diversity immigrant visas. The act further provides that visas for any single foreign state in these categories may not exceed 7 percent of the total available.