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Since millions of immigrants were searching for opportunity and better life and all these hopes brought a new wave of immigrants to the United States
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In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration.
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When the exclusion act expired in 1892, Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act.
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The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960
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The Geary Act regulated Chinese immigration until the 1920s. With increased postwar immigration, Congress adopted new means for regulation: quotas and requirements pertaining to national origin. By this time, anti-Chinese agitation had quieted.
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The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north.
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In 1943 Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization.
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July 1, 1968, 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.