Immigration Dates
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- Late 1600s
- Africans as slaves
- Major groups before 1790
- English, Welsh, Scots
- 1629-1640
- Puritans
- 1675-1715
- Quakers
- 1790-1849
- Germans
- 1795
- Naturalization Act
- 1795 Naturalization Act
- Could be citizen if in US for 5 years
- 1840
- Gold Rush
- 1846-1855
- Irish (potato famine)
- 1847
- First Chinese
- 1858
- Restrict Chinese immigration
- 1882
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
- Started Japanese immigration
- 1880s
- Jews fled anti-Semitism, Korean political exiles
- 1898
- Colonization of Philippines
- Early 1900s
- Asian groups
- 1907
- Gentlemen's Agreement
- 1910-1917
- Mexican revolution pushed Mexicans into US
- 1917
- Immigration Act banned Asians
- 1918
- World War I
- 1921
- Emergency Quota Act
- 1924
- Immigration Act
- Immigration Act of 1924
- Reduced number of Southern, Eastern Europeans (esp. Jews), banned Asians (but not Mexicans/Caribbeans)
- 1929-1935
- Mexicans repatriated
- 1933
- Jews fleeing Hitler denied US access
- 1939-1945
- World War II
- Bracero Program
- Mexicans could come work legally during WWII
- 1947
- War Brides Act
- War Brides Act
- Filipinos who served in war could bring wives
- 1952
- Immigration and Nationality Act
- 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act
- Quotas based on census
- 1965
- Immigration Act
- 1959
- Castro's coup
- 1965 Immigration Act
- Wave including Filipinos, Koreans
- 1980
- Illegal Irish immigrants fleeing unemployment
- 1986
- Immigration Reform and Control Act (Border Patrol)