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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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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> -
Established standards to be followed by ships carrying passengers to the United States.
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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.
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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.
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Let the US obtain what is now Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and some of the areas of Utah and Nevada.
tp://http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/guadalupe-hidalgo/' >Slavery</a> -
Congress's jurisdiction was preemptive so that even in the absence of any federal legislation, state governments could not regulate immigration
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Its goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance.
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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.
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granting voting rights to citizens, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
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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>
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The US Border Patrol is established.
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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
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limits legal immigration and restates the basis for exclusion and deportation of individuals.
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permits Central Americans the right to become legal residents of the US.
