HISTORY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: United States Congress Joint Immigration Commission, Israel Zangwill, Franz Boas
28 Sep 2016
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Naturalization law of 1790 established only free white people can apply for citizens after moving into the country, black added to this law in 1860, gone away with after passing of 14th amendment. The melting pot (1908) israel zangwill, world where ethnicity has been abolished, protagonist. David quixano a russian jew who marries a christian after moving to america. Chinese exclusion act of 1882 first major law to restrict immigration, forbid immigration of. Chinese workers for a period of 20 years. Gentleman"s agreement (1907) reintegrate japanese americans in the san francisco schools in exchange that japanese would stop immigrating into the us. Foran act (1885) banned the arrangements where people would pay for someone to immigrate to us in exchange for labor. Ellis island (1892) principle station for immigrants arriving into the country from europe, handled thousands of immigrants each day.
