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Elisha Otis developed the mechanized elevator which allowed building to be higher than 5 stories
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Congress passed the chinese exclusion act which denied citizenship to people born in china and prohibited the immigration of chinese laborers.
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An orginization founded by wealthy Bostonians, the immigration restriction leaque they tried to pass a bill that would make all illegal immigrants take a literacy tests but president Grover Cleveland vetoed the bill
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Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. This extension, made permanent in 1902, added restrictions by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, she or he faced deportation
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The first large movement of blacks occurred during World War I, when 454,000 black southerners moved north
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In 1943 Congress repealed all the exclusion acts, leaving a yearly limit of 105 Chinese and gave foreign-born Chinese the right to seek naturalization.
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The Immigration Act of 1990 provided the most comprehensive change in legal immigration since 1965. The act established a “flexible” worldwide cap on family-based, employment-based, and diversity immigrant visas. The act further provides that visas for any single foreign state in these categories may not exceed 7 percent of the total available.