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North America Migration into US
Series of events that influenced the course of migration into the N American continent to modern day which only covers migration policies after the newly established American government -
Neutralization Act of 1790
The first statute in the United States to codify naturalization law. Alternately known as the Nationality Act, the Naturalization Act of 1790 restricted citizenship to "any alien, being a free white person" who had been in the U.S. for two years. In effect, it left out indentured servants, slaves, and most women. -
Naturalization Act 1798
increased the period necessary for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the United States from 5 to 14 years. -
Louisiana Purchase 1803
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
The Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. -
Irish Potato Famine
Great Famine, also called Irish Potato Famine, Great Irish Famine, or Famine of 1845–49, famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The crop failures were caused by late blight, a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish), officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo -
California Gold Rush 1849
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. -
Homestead Act 1862
the Homestead Acts were an expression of the "Free Soil" policy of Northerners who wanted individual farmers to own and operate their own farms, as opposed to Southern slave-owners who wanted to buy up large tracts of land and use slave labor, thereby shutting out free white men -
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Arizona Mining Towns 1835-1895
Arizona has a long history of gold and silver mining but ultimately in Arizona, copper is king. Arizona is the only state that has multiple major copper mining districts including infamous districts like Bisbee, Clifton-Morenci, and Jerome. Copper remains a major industry in Arizona to this day.
Bisbee. Chloride.Clifton. Courtland.Gleeson. Globe.Harshaw. Jerome.Lowell. Miami.Oatman. Patagonia.Pearce. Ray.Ruby. Tombstone. -
Arizona Statehood 1912
Arizona had not entered as a US state due to technical reasons due to there not being a prominent white population that would secure white political influence over non-white or non-Anglo Europeans -
Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. -
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (H.R. 2580; Pub.L. 89–236, 79 Stat. 911, enacted June 30, 1968), also known as the Hart–Celler Act, changed the way quotas were allocated by ending the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act of 1921. -
Immigration Reform Protest 2006 Arizona
The marches reached a climax on May 1, 2006 and were nicknamed "A day without Immigrants" after the film A Day Without a Mexican. Naming the protests in such way encouraged immigrants to quit their daily labor-intensive jobs for a day to draw attention to their significant contributions to U.S. daily life. The mobilization of working-class undocumented immigrants challenged the belief that the United States would be able to prosper without undocumented immigrants -
SB1070
U.S. federal law requires all aliens over the age of 14 who remain in the United States for longer than 30 days to register with the U.S. crime.The Arizona act additionally a state misdemeanor crime for an alien to be in Arizona without carrying the required documents,required that state law enforcement "lawful stop, detention or arrest", reasonable suspicion that the individual is an illegal immigrant.
