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Most of the chinese immigration in America occured during this time period.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
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Geary Act it allowed Chinese laborers to travel to China and reenter the United States but its provisions were otherwise more restrictive than preceding immigration laws. This Act required Chinese to register and secure a certificate as proof of their right to be in the United States.
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boll weevil epidemic in 1898 caused massive crop damage across the South causing blacks in sharecroopin to migrate.
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In 1900 the Office of the Superintendent of Immigration, which had been established in the Department of the Treasury in 1891, became the chief agency responsible for implementing Federal regulations mandated by the Chinese exclusion laws.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1910
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World war 1 created the huge demand of workers in northern factories, many southern blacks took it as oppurtunity and left south in huge numbers.
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Between 1890 and 1920, about two million African Americans migrate from the rural southern states to the northern cities, where they hope to find better opportunities and less discrimination.
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During World War II, when China and the United States were allies, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Act to Repeal the Chinese Exclusion Acts, to Establish Quotas, and for Other Purposes
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Congress passes the Housing Act, authorizing funds to local governments for the construction of public housing to provide a "suitable living environment" for every American family including blacks without racial segregation.
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The Hart-Celler Act abolished the national origins quota system that was American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a preference system that focused on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents.