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The English Arrive in America
This is when Jamestown was founded. James I granted english investors of the Virginia Company a charter to plant colonies in Virginia. The investors sent 3 small ships and 144 men to VIrginia where the ship arrived off the coast of North America. Thats when the colonists founded a new settlement they named Jameston, in honor of their king. -
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Immigration History
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Naturalization Act
Any free white person could recieve citizenship providing they had renounced their allegiance to their previous state/sovereignty by name, lived in the United States for five years at least, behave as a man of good moral character, and renounced any title they possessed in the previous states.
http://http://www.indiana.edu/~kdhist/H105-documents-web/week08/naturalization1790.html' >Naturalization Act</a> -
Thr Steerage Act
Established standards to be followed by ships carrying passengers to the United States. -
Mexico Abolished Slavery
President of Mexico Vincent Guerrero, with mixed African, Spanish and Native American Ancestry, abolished . Afterwards, a group of reactionaries betrayed him and executed him. Guerrero's fought politically for civil rights for all. -
California Gold Rush
The discovery of gold in 1848 brought a large rush of immigrants from around the globe. One of the largest groups to arrive in California was the Chinese. 20,000 Chinese miners arrived in California in 1852 alone. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Let the US obtain what is now Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and some of the areas of Utah and Nevada.
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Supreme Court Rules that Congress Alone can Regulate Immigration
Congress's jurisdiction was preemptive so that even in the absence of any federal legislation, state governments could not regulate immigration -
The Great Compromise
Its goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance. -
The Homestead Act
The Homestead Act provides free plots of up to 160 acres of western land to settlers who agree to develop and live on it for at least five years, thereby spurring an influx of immigrants from overpopulated countries in Europe seeking land of their own. -
15th Amendment is Passed
granting voting rights to citizens, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
The 14th Amendment was ratified
The Supreme Court ratifies that the 14th Amendment will grant citizenship to all who are born United States.htp://http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/14thamendment.html' >14th</a> -
Border Patrol
The US Border Patrol is established. -
The Civil Rights Movement
to achieve Civil Rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of racial discrimination -
The Immigration Act of 1990
limits legal immigration and restates the basis for exclusion and deportation of individuals. -
The Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
permits Central Americans the right to become legal residents of the US.
