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Timeline of U.S. Immigration Policy
Timeline of U.S. Immigration Policy
| 1790 | Federal government establishes a two-year residency requirement for citizenship. |
| 1875 | First exclusionary act bars convicts, prostitutes, and Chinese contract laborers from entry into the United States. |
| 1882 | In the first significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history, the Chinese Exclusion Act excludes Chinese laborers from entry for 10 years. Chinese non-laborers wishing to immigrate must obtain a certificate from the Chinese government. |
| 1885 | Contract laborers' entry barred. |
| 1891 | Paupers, polygamists, and persons with contagious diseases are excluded from entry to the United States. |
| 1903 | Additional categories of persons excluded, including anarchists. |
| 1904 | Congress indefinitely extends the provisions of the Chinese Exclusion Act. |
| 1907 | Additional categories of persons excluded, including the feebleminded, those with tuberculosis, persons with physical or mental defects, and persons under age 16 without parents. |
| 1907 | [Gentleman's agreement] between United States and Japan curtails Japanese immigration. |
| 1917 | All Asians banned from entry. Literacy test introduced. |
| 1921 | Quota Act sets an annual immigration ceiling at 350,000, and establishes a new nationality quota designed to restrict immigration from eastern and southern Europe. |
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Publication information:
Book title: Using Deliberative Techniques to Teach United States History.
Contributors: Eleanora Von Dehsen - Author, Nancy Claxton - Author.
Publisher: International Debate Education Association.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2009.
Page number: 118.
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