-
Dred Scott V Sandford was one of the first flash points in national citizenship as Scott was an enslaved man who was taken voluntarily into free territory by his slave master. In the end, the court ruled just because he was in a free territory it did not make him a citizen.
-
WHen the Abraham Lincoln administration took over the white house in 1860, They made it legal for free African Americans to become citizens of the United States.
-
The civil rights act of 1866 granted all persons who were born in the United states or a certain state a citizen, regardless of race as well.
-
The 14th amendment gave equal treatment for African Americans after the civil war and granted them birthright citizenship.
-
The naturalization act of 1870 ensured that any one of African decent got the same rights that were already enjoyed by white immigrants.
-
Chy Lung v. Freeman was a supreme court case where the court decided that the federal government hold all of the power to regulate immigration.
-
The Angell treaty of 1880 allowed the United States to restrict and choose certain Chinese workers they wanted entering the country. This made it closer to the United States completely excluding the Chinese from immigration.
-
Only a few months after the Chinese exclusion laws, this new law made more immigrants excluded from entering the country such as those who were convicts or someone considered to cause trouble.
-
This case dealt with the 14th amendment and Native Americans. The Supreme court ultimately ruled that American Indians who did not gain their citizenship through birth would be denied the right to vote.
-
Congress ended up extending authority over immigration and the Chinese exclusion laws. It ended one of the exemptions previously made from the United States which left around 20 thousand stranded migrants
-
The immigration bureau was created to process legal immigrants into the country as well as make immigration restrictions.
-
The Geary Act was targeted towards Chinese immigrants by requiring they must prove their reason for being here by carrying around a certificate of residence. This is an early green card system
-
This case ended up actually supporting racial segregation in the U.S. as long the facilities were separate but equal.
-
This case ruled that any person who was born in the United States was now a citizen regardless of the race or status of the parents.
-
Congress furthered these laws in a response to the Chinese government trying to wager better conditions for Chinese Immigrants in the United States.
-
This act would strip the citizenship from any women who married a man who was an immigrant and not a citizen.
-
This was a congress funded operation that built restrictions on European immigration
-
Basically these laws prohibited immigrants who were ineligible for citizenship from owning land.
-
This act gave Puerto Ricans citizenship after the United States acquired the territory.
-
This act restored citizenship back to women who were previously citizens before marrying an non U.S. citizen.
-
This act granted all Native Americans who were born in the United States were automatically citizens by birth.
-
This act gave Filipinos the right to immigrate freely into the United States
-
President Franklin Roosevelt signed an order that would attempt to capture all Japanese Americans living within 100 miles of the west coast because of the war.
-
This act allowed refugees from Europe who were already seeking refuge in the United States to regularize their status
-
This act got rid of many discriminatory provisions and ended all racial restrictions on citizenship.
-
This act gave more exceptions to the immigration restrictions.
-
This act provided anti communist from Cuba a permanent status in the United States.
-
The U.S. admitted 135,000 South Asians and Vietnamese immigrants across the country to help them start new lives
-
This act took on the ongoing problem of unauthorized immigration. It created a system with visa programs for an example.
-
This act allowed Chinese students to get away from china and file for permanent status in the United States.
-
This had to do with how unaccompanied minors were being treated in immigration detention.
-
After the attacks of september 11 there was 22 newly made agencies for immigration and security
-
This act ensures that Homeland Security achieves control over all walls and fences at the United States border.
-
Trying to deal with unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as minor children and has lived in the U.S. before 2007. They are giving them protection from deportation is they meet these requirements.
-
The Trump administration banned travel and refugees from certain muslim countries.