|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
last updated 05/09/05 view
basic version |
||||
|
 |
|||
| | | The Learning Page | ||||
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
| last updated 05/09/05 view
basic version |
||||
|
|
|||
| | | The Learning Page | ||||
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
| 1790 | |
The federal government requires two years of residency for naturalization |
| 1850 | |
The Compromise of 1850— includes the Fugitive Slave Act, designed to assist in recovery of runaway slaves (more federal officers; denies fugitive slaves jury trials) |
| 1816 | |
The American Colonization Society forms to assist in repatriating free African Americans to a Liberian colony on the West Coast of Africa. |
| 1857 | The Supreme Court’s Dred Scott Decision: declares blacks are not U.S. citizens; finds ban on slavery in the territories (Missouri Compromise of 1820) unconstitutional. |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
| 1868 | The 14th Amendment to the Constitution endows African American with citizenship. | |
 |
||
| 1870 | |
The 15th Amendment of the Constitution provides African-American males with the right to vote. |
| 1885 | Congress bans the admission of contract laborers. |
| 1896 | |
Plessy v. Ferguson: Supreme Court ruling that “separate but equal” accommodations for African Americans and whites were Constitutional; decision allows legalized segregation. |
| 1929 | Congress makes annual immigration quotas permanent. |
| 1941 | President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802: forbids discrimination in federal hiring, job-training programs, and defense industries. |
| 1948 | The United States admits persons fleeing persecution in their native lands; allowing 205,000 refugees to enter within two years. |
| 1952 | |
Immigration and Nationality Act: individuals of all races eligible for naturalization; reaffirms national origins quota system, limits immigration from Eastern Hemisphere; establishes preferences for skilled workers and relatives of U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens; and tightens security and screening standards and procedures |
|
||
| 1953 | |
Congress amends 1948 refugee policy to allow for the admission of 200,000 more refugees |
| 1954 | Brown v. Topeka Board of Education: Supreme Court rules that “separate but equal” educational facilities were unconstitutional. |
| 1964 | The Civil Rights Acts ensures voting rights; prohibits housing discrimination. |
| 1980 | The Refugee Act redefines criteria and procedures for admitting refugees. |
| 1986 | Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) legalizes illegal aliens residing in the U.S. unlawfully since 1982 |
| 1808 | |
Congress bans the importation of slaves but slavery in the United States continues to grow. |
| 1819 | |
Congress establishes reporting on immigration. |
|
||
| 1820 | |
The Compromise of 1820 admits Maine and Missouri into the Union as a free and a slave state, respectively. This legislation also prohibited slavery in territories north of Missouri. |
| 1861 | |
Abraham Lincoln takes the presidential oath of office; Southern Confederacy ratifies a new Constitution, elects Jefferson Davis as first Confederate president; Civil War begins. |
|
||
| 1862 | |
The Union Army permits black men to enlist as laborers, cooks, teamsters, and servants. |
| 1863 | |
The Emancipation Proclamation abolishes slavery, permits African American men to join the Union Army. |
|
||
| 1864 | |
Congress legalizes the importation of contract laborers. |
|
|
 |
|
|
|