MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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the way that the US negotiated with France
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the length of time that it took immigrants to become citizens
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -This 1790 act set the new nation’s naturalization procedures. It limited access to U.S. citizenship to white immigrants-in effect, to people from Western Europe-who had resided in the U.S. at least two years and their children under 21 years of age. It also granted citizenship to children born abroad to U.S. citizens.
Detailed explanation-2: -USCIS has a legacy of more than 100 years of federal immigration and naturalization administration. Federal oversight of immigration began in 1891, when Congress created the first Office of Immigration in the Treasury Department.
Detailed explanation-3: -The law abolished the National Origins Formula, which had been the basis of U.S. immigration policy since the 1920s. The act removed de facto discrimination against Southern and Eastern Europeans and Asians, as well as other non-Western and Northern European ethnic groups from American immigration policy.