ETST 012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Alien Land Laws, Immigration Act Of 1924, Chinese Buddhism
23 Jul 2018
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Etst 012 lecture 14: asian immigration and religion in the us. Asian immigration determine the citizenship status of residents of the us. Naturalization act of 1790 : first of a series of legislative bills which sought to. Defined a citizen as a free white person of good character : excluded. Upheld up until the 1868 passage of the fourteenth amendment slaves, free blacks, asians, indians, and indentured servants. Granted legal citizenship to all persons born in the united states, regardless of race or ethnicity. Historical periods of immigration from asian countries can roughly be divided into three broad waves . First wave : majority of the nineteenth century through the 1920"s and the establishment of the chinese exclusion act. Consisted mostly of laborers and farmers from china and japan, as well as some sikh migrants from india. Did not expect to stay permanently: when gold rush subsided, they moved into agricultural, private business, and railroad building occupations.
