HISTORY 15F Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Westron, Ethnology, Displaced Persons Act
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Testimony against white people in the court of law a ruling based on racism. Increase in the power of the federal government elsewhere. photographs) opened and remained as immigration reception center until 1954. Week 3a: major us immigration and citizenship policies and developments. 1607 founding of jamestown, virginia by english colonists. 1620 voyage of the mayflower, carrying pilgrims to the new world. 1790 first naturalization act (p. 104 of the statutes at large and treaties of the usa): only free white persons could be naturalized. 1846-47 irish potato famine, causing large-scale irish emigration. 1848 gold discovery in california, starting the gold rush. Chinese immigrants (first asians) were also about to arrive. 1854 people vs hall, a california supreme court case, which rules that no chinese could give. 1848 -- treaty of guadalupe hidalgo, at the end of the mexican war, extends citizenship to about 80,000. 1868 the burlingame (anson burlingame (1820-1870) ) treaty between the united state and china.
