Particular Labor and Capitol Requirements Causes Populous Feelings and Perceptions of Immigration Over the Last 400 Years to Sway in Many Directions
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Immigration to the North American Continent: Changes in Popular Perception
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The First English Settlers Arrive in America
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Indentured Servitude: importation of human capital until this event: South Switches to Slavery and permanent Lower Class
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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 -
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Mexico Abolishes Slavery Plan of Iguala
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The Homestead Act of 1862
Act To Encourage ImmigrationAct To Encourage Immigration with land promises to farmers -
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The Chinese Exclusion Act
After being used extensively to build the inter-continental railroad; US perception of the Chinese Immigrants drives this change. -
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Ellis Island Opens as an immigrant entry checkpoint.
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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
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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. -
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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. -
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The Immigration Act of 1965 Enacted in 1968
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Immigration Reform and Control Act of November 6, 1986
1986Reagan pushed for naturalization processes for undocumented persons residing in the US for extended time.
