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Key Immigration Laws of the U.S.
Timeline of key immigration laws of the united states. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Four laws of Congress that limited or stopped the rights of certain groups of people. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants could not become American citizens. -
Alien Contract Labor Laws
The alien contract labor act was passed by congress in 1885 to prohibit corporations or individuals from paying for the transportation of foreign laborors in the Uinted States. -
Immigration and Naturalization Service Created
Now referred to as Legacy INS. INS was established on June 10, 1933, by thier merger to administer matters related to established immigration and naturalization policy. After 1890, the federal government, rather than the individual states, regulated immigration into the U.S. -
INS Opens up Ellis Island as a screening station for immigrants
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The U.S. and Japan sign the gentlemen's Agreement
U.S.-Japanese agreement, in which Japan agreed not to give passports to Japanese people who wanted to go to the U.S., except for business and professional men. In return president Theodore Roosevelt agreed to urge the city of San Francsico to stop segregation of Japanese and white children. The issues were prejudice to Californians who feared that Japanese immigrants would gain control of most of the good farming land. -
Immigration Act of 1917
This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but no limited to "homosexuals", "idiots", "feeble-minded persons", "criminals", "epileptics", "insane persons", alcoholics, "professional beggars", -
Anarchist Act passed and excludes subversive aliens
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A quota system is first introduced
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War Brides Act
this allows spouses and adopted children of the US military to perasonnel to enter the U.S. after world war II.
