Particular Labor and Capitol Requirements Causes Populous Feelings and Perceptions of Immigration Over the Last 400 Years to Sway in Many Directions

By DionneLeesley
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    Immigration to the North American Continent: Changes in Popular Perception

  • The First English Settlers Arrive in America

    The First English Settlers Arrive in America

    Colonization in the New World. Immigrants to a New Land
  • Indentured Servitude: importation of human capital until this event: South Switches to Slavery and permanent Lower Class

    Indentured Servitude: importation of human capital until this event: South Switches to Slavery and permanent Lower Class

    Common Indentured Servitude Ends in South as a Result of Bacon's Rebellion
  • Articles of Confederation:

    Articles of Confederation:

    Articles of ConfederationIV The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall free ingress and
  • 1798 Naturalization Act

    1798 Naturalization Act

    PDF of Legistlation
  • The Steerage Act of 1819

    The Steerage Act of 1819

    1819 Steerage act
  • Mexico Abolishes Slavery Plan of Iguala

    Mexico Abolishes Slavery Plan of Iguala

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • The Homestead Act of 1862

    The Homestead Act of 1862

    Act To Encourage ImmigrationAct To Encourage Immigration with land promises to farmers
  • President appoints Commisioner of Immigration

    President appoints Commisioner of Immigration

    1964 Act to Create Commissioner of Immigration
  • Fourteenth Amendment

    Fourteenth Amendment

    13-14-15 th ammendments
  • The Chinese Exclusion Act

    The Chinese Exclusion Act

    After being used extensively to build the inter-continental railroad; US perception of the Chinese Immigrants drives this change.
  • Immigration Act

    Immigration Act

    Immigration Act of 1882NO LUNATICS
  • Ellis Island Opens as an immigrant entry checkpoint.

    Ellis Island Opens as an immigrant entry checkpoint.

    Huge, Huge immigration from Europe from 1870 through WWI.
  • The Dillingham Commission

    The Dillingham Commission

    This law created the Dillingham Commission to collect data used in future immigration laws, further narrowed Asian immigration, limited Muslim immigration, and expanded the definition of undesirable women immigrants.
  • Angel Island (Ellis Island of the West) opens to be an immigration Station

    Angel Island (Ellis Island of the West) opens to be an immigration Station

    SanFrancisco Bay's Angel Island
  • The Immigration Act of 1917, also called Asiatic Barred Zone Act denies entrance to Immigrants from Eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands to the US.

    The Immigration Act of 1917, also called Asiatic Barred Zone Act denies entrance to Immigrants from Eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands to the US.

    Literacy TestAdded to the exclusion list were illiterates, persons of psychopathic inferiority, men as well as women entering for immoral purposes, alcoholics, stowaways, and vagrants.
  • The Emergency Quota Law of 1921

    The Emergency Quota Law of 1921

    national origins quota system
  • The Immigration Act of 1924: US Border Patrol Established

    The Immigration Act of 1924: US Border Patrol Established

    Quotas restricted to Family Members
  • Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943

    Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943

    President Franklin D Roosevelt: Acts or parts of Acts relating to the exclusion or deportation of persons of the Chinese race are hereby repealed.
  • The Displaced Persons Act of 1948

    The Displaced Persons Act of 1948

    1948 Displaced Persons
  • The Immigration Act of 1965 Enacted in 1968

    The Immigration Act of 1965 Enacted in 1968

    Cap on total immigration.
  • Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of May 23, 1975

    Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of May 23, 1975

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  • Immigration Reform and Control Act of November 6, 1986

    Immigration Reform and Control Act of November 6, 1986

    1986Reagan pushed for naturalization processes for undocumented persons residing in the US for extended time.