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The first transcontinental railroad is completed with significant Chinese immigrant labor.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act halts Chinese laborer immigration for 10 years and denies Chinese from becoming naturalized U.S. citizens.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision, Yick Wo v. Hopkins, rules that laws that are enforced with racial discrimination violates the 14th Amendment.
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The Scott Act declares over 20,000 Chinese laborers’ re-entry permits null and void.
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In Fong Yue Ting v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Congress has the power to expel the Chinese.
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The 1870 Naturalization Act is expanded to apply to other Asians.
Angel Island Detention Center opens. The Center, located off California, examines potential Asian immigrants. Many of them are Chinese immigrants.
The Chinese American population represents 94,414 out of a total U.S. population of 92.2 million.
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454,000 black southerners moved north
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World War I created a huge demand for workers in northern jkifactories, many southern blacks took this opportunity to leave the oppressive economic conditions in the south78
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800,000 blacks left the south
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398,000 blacks leave.
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3,348,000 blacks left the south for northern and western cities.