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Required immigrants to have lived in the US for at least 2 years before they could become naturalized citizens.
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required 14 years of residency before citizenship and provided for the deportation of "dangerous" aliens. Changed to five-year residency in 1800.
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Includes reporting of immigration and rules for passengers from US ports bound for Europe
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Irish of all classes emigrate to the United States as a result of the potato famine.
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Dred Scott decision declared free Africans non-citizens
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Allowed recruiting of foreign labor.
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Africans gained citizenship
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Henderson v. Mayor of New York decision declared all state laws governing immigration unconstitutional; Congress must regulate "foreign commerce." Charity workers, burdened with helping immigrants, petition Congress to exercise authority and regulate immigration. Congress prohibits convicts and prostitutes from entering the country.
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The U.S. population is 50,155,783. More than 5.2 million immigrants enter the country between 1880 and 1890.
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First federal immigration law suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years and barred Chinese in U.S. from citizenship. Also barred convicts, lunatics, and others unable to care for themselves from entering. Head tax placed on immigrants.
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Unlawful to import unskilled aliens from overseas as laborers. Regulations did not pertain to those crossing land borders.
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For the first time since 1798, provisions are adopted for expulsion of aliens.
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Found Hull-House on Chicago's Near West Side.
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Steamship companies were ordered to return ineligible immigrants to countries of origin.
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Chinese exclusion act was renewed
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People with physical or mental defects, tuberculosis, and children unaccompanied by a parent are added to the exclusion list. Japan agreed to limit emigrants to US in return for elimination of segregating Japanese students in San Francisco schools.
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Act provided for literacy tests for those over 16 and established an "Asiatic Barred Zone," which barred all immigrants from Asia.
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Japanese made ineligable for citizenship
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Japan's quota was set at 185 annually. China's stayed at 105; other Asian countries were given 100 a piece. Northern and western Europe's quota was placed at 85% of all immigrants. Tighter restrictions were placed on immigrants coming from British colonies in order to stem the tide of black West Indians entering under Britain's generous quota. Non-quota class enlarged to include husbands of American women.
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Separate ceilings for Western and Eastern hemispheric immigration combined into a worldwide limit of 290,000.
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A bill gives permanent status to non-immigrant registered nurses who have lived in US for at least three years and met established certification standards.
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the Immigration and Nationality Act to broaden the scope of aliens ineligible for admission or deportable due to terrorist activities to include an alien who is a representative of a political, social, or similar group whose political endorsement of terrorist acts undermines U.S. antiterrorist efforts
