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Population and Great Migration Movement Comparison

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    Migration of Immigrants

    From 1800 to 1800, 10 million immigrants moved to America
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    denied citizenship to people who were born in China and stopped immigration of chinese workers
  • Panic of 1873

    unemployment mounted during this time due to too many people coming to America which lead to having many jobs fulfilled but left some people with no jobs
  • Murder of 1885

    A mob in Rocky Springs, Wyoming murdered 28 Chinese people and drove out hundereds more, this act was never stopped and Chinese people still migrated to the U.S just to get stationed at a Immigrant station.
  • Ellis Island opening

    Ellis Island opened due to many European immigrants set forth to America
  • Exclusion Act

    The Exclusion act has expired during this time yet has been extended for 10 more years in the form of the Geary Act
  • Immigration Restriction League

    An act to give immigrants a litercacy test in order to live in America, President Grover Cleveland "veto-d" calling that act un-American
  • Perminent Geary Act

  • Sourthern African Americans

    800,000 blacks left the south
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    Mass Migration

    5 million african americans moved to the U.S