US immogration 1780 present day

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    US immigration

  • The Naturalization Act

    The Naturalization Act

    reduced residency requirments from 14 to 5
  • Anti-Coolie-Act

    Anti-Coolie-Act

    put special tax for those who hired chinese workers
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    provided people with land to 160 acers
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    gave voting rights to all citizens
  • Naturalization Act (1870)

    Naturalization Act (1870)

    expands citizenship to whites and african americans but not Chinese
  • Chinese exculsion act

    Chinese exculsion act

    Prevents chinese to immagrate to the US
  • Immigration Act of 1882

    Immigration Act of 1882

    Gave tax for landing in certain places and gave categories for people who couldn’t be citizens
  • Alien contract labor law

    Alien contract labor law

    prevents any company or individual to bring an immigrant to the US to work
  • Geary Act

    Geary Act

    extends chinese exclusion act for 10 years and requires chinese residents to carry a permit
  • Chinese exclusion act (1902)

    Chinese exclusion act (1902)

    renewed
  • Naturalization act of 1906

    Naturalization act of 1906

    have to know english to become a citizen
  • Expatriation act

    Expatriation act

    if american women marries immigrant, she loses citizenship
  • California's alien land law

    California's alien land law

    Prevents those who can’t have citizenship from owning land in state
  • Immigration act of 1917

    Immigration act of 1917

    restricts immigratnes from asia
  • Jones-Shafroth act

    Jones-Shafroth act

    grants US citizenship to Puerto Ricans
  • Emergency quota act

    Emergency quota act

    restricts immigration from a given country to 3
  • Cable act

    Cable act

    takes away expatriation act, but if women marries asian she still loses citizenship
  • Immigration act of 1924

    Immigration act of 1924

    limits European immigration to 2%
  • Oriental exclusion act

    Oriental exclusion act

    prohibits immigrants from asia
  • Tydings-Mcduffe act

    Tydings-Mcduffe act

    grants Philippines independence
  • Alien Registration act

    Alien Registration act

    requires fingerprints of immigrants over age 14
  • Immigration and Nationality Act

    Immigration and Nationality Act

    eliminated race as a bar to immigration
  • Hart celler act

    Hart celler act

    abolished national origins quotas
  • Refugee act

    Refugee act

    removes refugees as a preference category
  • Immigration act of 1990

    Immigration act of 1990

    Limited unskilled workers to 10,000/ year
  • 2001- USA Patriot act

    2001- USA Patriot act

    To greaten the search for aliens ineligible for admission