WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
GILDED AGE POLITICS
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the Chinese Exclusion Act
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the American Protective Association
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the settlement house movement
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the Immigration Restriction League
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Detailed explanation-1: -Congress enacts the Immigration Act of 1882 (22 Stat. 214), constituting one the first attempts at broad federal oversight of immigration. The law levies a tax of 50 cents for each passenger arriving by ship from a foreign port who is not a US citizen, to be paid by the ship’s owner.
Detailed explanation-2: -On this date, the House passed the 1924 Immigration Act-a measure which was a legislative expression of the xenophobia, particularly towards eastern and southern European immigrants, that swept America in the decade of the 1920s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Description. More than 12 million immigrants made their first stop in America at the Ellis Island Immigration Station between 1892 and 1954.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 1924 act would define U.S. immigration policy for nearly three decades, until being substantially revised by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 and ultimately replaced by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.