US Immigration

By ljohnson-20
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    English come to the Americas

    The English came to the Americas to colonize. They built colonies which eventually revolted against the English and started a new a country.
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    Large wave of Immigrants from Great Britain, Germany, Ireland

    Between 1820 and 1880 70% of the immigrants were from these countries and a large portion of the Irish represented the first catholics in the country. This can be related to the potato famine.
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    Surge of Chinese immigration

    Nearly two hundred thousand Chinese came to the U.S. They were not well welcomed because they would work for cheaper, so they had laws created against them that would limit who they could marry and who they could testify against. These laws specifically protected white people form asians.
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    Italy and Eastern Europe Immigration

    These immigrants came speaking different languages and had extremely different cultures compared to the U.S. Congress attempted to limit immigrants by requiring literacy tests to enter the country.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Prohibited all Chinese laborers from entering the country. It was the first significant law that restricted immigration into the United States of an ethnic working group.
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    Mexican and Canadian Immigration

    Immigration was fairly open and large numbers of Canadians immigrated to the U.S. There was a slow in immigration though the 1930's because of the Great Depression. Immigration after that boomed until September of 2001

  • 1924 National Exclusion Act

    A United States federal law that set quotas on the number of immigrants from certain countries while providing funding and an enforcement mechanism to carry out the longstanding ban on other non-white immigrants.

  • Displaced Persons Act

    The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 authorized for a limited period of time the admission into the United States of 200,000 certain European displaced persons for permanent residence.

  • Immigration and Nationality Act 1965

    The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart Celler Act, changed the way quotas were allocated by ending the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act of 1921.

  • 1986 Immigration Reform and Control

    Ronald Reagan tried to reform immigration also known as the 1986 amnesty, allowed millions of unauthorized immigrants to apply for legal status.

  • Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act of 1996

    Strengthened U.S. immigration laws, adding penalties for undocumented immigrants who commit crimes while in the United States or who stay in the U.S. for statutorily defined periods of time.
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    Past 10 years

    Since 9/11 US immigration laws have become very complex and a lot more in depth in order to protect the American people.

  • ICE created

    (US immigration and customs enforcement) Finds immigrants that are national security threats.