HIST 3554 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Emancipation Proclamation, Cable Act, Wage Labour
Document Summary
Way of determining how people are integrated into settler lifestyle. 1790 naturalization act: regulated who could naturalize. 1870 15th amendment: all citizens can vote (not all people) 1883 chinese exclusions act: first rule that stopped people from immigrating. 1910 one drop rule: one drop of black blood meant you were african american. 1924 immigration and naturalization act: creation of an immigration nation-state quota legal evolution of law. Purpose: not for the benefit of slaves, the win the war. Would be a fatal blow to the south. Some considered it a wartime strategy punishment for slavery. Freed slaves in states that were part of the rebellion: not applied to ky, md, dl , ml, tn, la, tx. Wage work on slave plantations: another form of economic discipline, expanded wage labor, many ex slaves went back to work on plantations they were feed from, share cropping. Buffalo soldiers result of emancipation (de facto) flood of freed slaves to serve in union army.
