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APUSH Exam 2

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1640-1760 Colonial Immigration (English, Scots Irish, Irish, German)
1820-1850 Old Immigration (English, Irish, German)
1880-1924 New Immigration (Southern & Eastern Europeans -- Russian, Slavic, Polish, Jew, Greek, Italian)
1965-now Contemporary Immigration (Asian and Latin American)
1790 Naturalization Act To be a citizen, you have to have stayed in the US for 2 years (increased to 5 in 1795) and you have to be white and of good moral character
1798 Alien and Sedition Acts limits the rights of citizens, Federal govt can deport immigrants whose countries were at war with the US
1834 Ursuline Convent burned by anti-Catholic mob
1835 Samuel Morse creates Morse code because he was obsessed with the idea that a popish conspiracy to overtake the US was about to occur
1837 Native American Party turns into "Know Nothing" Party --Nativist party
1849 Order of Star Spangled Banner founded and develops into KNP (sought to restrict immigrants bc of genuine fear that they would steal their jobs and wages and status)
1855 KNP wins state and national elections -limits on immigration from Catholic countries, Restricting political office to native-born Americans, Mandate 21 year wait before immigrant gain citizenship public school teaching to Protestants
1850s Civil War ends Old Immigration
1862 Anti-Coolie Act discourages Chinese immigrants to California, places taxes on employers who hire Chinese immigrants
1870 Naturalization Act permits whites and African Americans to have citizenship but not Asians
1882 Immigration Act people are not eligible for immigration if they are idiots, lunatics, dangers to society, first law to LIMIT immigration based on certain criteria
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 10 years: All Chinese immigrants banned from coming to the US
1892 Geary Act Extended the Chinese Exclusion Act: all Chinese immigrants had to have a certificate of residence or else they could be detained/imprisoned
1892 Fong Yue Ting vs United States Affirms 1892 Geary Act
1907 Gentleman's Agreement with Japan Japan restricted people from going to the US and the US didn't restrict Japanese people already in the US
1922 Ozawa vs United States Affirms 1790 Naturalization Act that Asians can't be naturalized because they are not racially white even if they have assimilated to American culture
1924 National Origins Act Bans all Asian people, reduce quota system to 2% of people living in US for future immigration
1944 Korematsu vs United States Affirms Executive Order 9066 that says that Japanese were interned for military necessity
1944 Ex Parte Endo Supreme Court authorized end of Japanese American incarceration bc loyal citizens cannot be held regardless of military necessity
1965 Immigration Reform Act Ends racist quota, contemporary immigration starts
1988 Civil Liberties Act
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