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Gave U.S. citizenship to "free white persons".
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Allowed for the removal of Native Americans because they weren't U.S. citizens and therefore had no right to any land.
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Gave U.S. citizenship to the Mexicans living in the annexed part of Northern Mexico.
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Ruled that slaves and free African Americans had no right to citizenship. This also meant that they did not have the rights that citizens had at the time.
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Declared that all people born in the United States were American citizens, regardless of race
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Guaranteed citizenship for everyone born in the U.S. and gave every citizen the right to due process.
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Gave citizenship rights specifically to African-Americans and denied citizenship for other nonwhite groups.
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Created a barred zone from the Middle East to Southeast Asia where no one could enter the United States, nor obtain citizenship.
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Restored citizenship to all U.S. born women who lost their citizenship because they married non citizen men
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Gave all Native Americans citizenship.
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Changed China's citizenship restrictions to the same as European countries.
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Allowed European refugees to regularize their status.
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Increased border enforcement and increased the requirements of employers. Also created a system that gave amnesty for residents on the path to citizenship.