Immigration Shaping America

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  1. 4. 1776 The Declaration of Independence charges the king of England with obstructing migration to British North America, thereby indirectly indicating that the colonies were greatly interested in recruiting new settlers. In fact, most colonies are in active competition with other colonies for these prospective settlers.
  2. 9. Mexican residents of the newly acquired territory are allowed to remain. They are subjected to serious discrimination but become the heart of labor for the American Southwest.
  3. 10. The first arrive in California as political refugees. Racial tensions grow between Asians and other Californians.
  4. 12. considered by Congess to restrict the flow of immigrants and potential terrorists into the U.S.
  5. 13. 1565 First permanent European settlement in the United States is established at St. Augustine, Florida, by the Spanish.1598 Spanish immigrants settle in what is now Texas and New Mexico.1619 First shipment of African slaves arrives in Virginia.
  6. 14. interrupts mass immigration to the United States
  7. 15. President Eisenhower's border control program. Cut illegal immigration at the cost of anti-Latino discrimination.
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  1. 1. The treaty pledges to China the right of unrestricted immigration of Chinese citizens to the United States.
  2. 2. Significant Chinese migration to the United States begins to ares such as San Francisco
  3. 3. The first serious prohibition of free immigration in all of American history, this legislation bans Chinese migration to the United States for ten years
  4. 5. many Americans panic, believing that the nation is threatened by a communist menace.
  5. 6. limiting American citizenship to "white persons and persons of African descent," thereby discriminating against Asian immigrants.
  6. 7. 1910 sends thousands of Mexicans to the United States. Over the next twenty years, nearly a million enter the United States, seeking work.
  7. 8. A literacy test for incoming immigrants finally becomes law
  8. 11. applies to the period of time during the 1630's when Massachusetts's population sky rocketed with the migration of approximately 21,000 immigrants to New EnglandEraofRegulation beginning the long history of immigrant pioneers in the fertile field of the mass culture in the United States.
  9. 16. brings immigration to a complete halt as hostilities prevent transport across the ocean.