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Title: 1819: Steerage Act [no text]

Year: 1819

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Title: 1847: Passenger Act [no text]

Year: 1847

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Title: 1855: Passenger Act [no text]

Year: 1855

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Title: 1862: Homestead Act, May 20, 1862

Year: 1876

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Publisher: PBS


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Title: 1864: Act to Encourage Immigration [no text; Civl War, to encourage replacement immigrant labor]

Year: 1864

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Title: 1875: March 3, 1875. (18 Stat. 477; anti-Chinese "coolie" labor; denies entry to prostitutes & criminals; no T

Year: 1875

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Title: 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act

Year: 1882

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Price: Free

Publisher: MtHolyoke


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Title: 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act

Year: 1882

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Price: Free

Publisher: CivicsOnline


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Title: 1884: Chinese Exclusion Act [July 5, 1884; extends exclusion for another 10 years]

Year: 1885

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Price: Free

Publisher: MtHolyoke


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Title: 1885: Alien Contract Labor Law 1885 [no text; restricts contract labor]

Year: 1885

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Title: 1891: Immigration Act of 1891 [no text; added exlusions to paupers, idiots, the insane, diseased persons, con

Year: 1891

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Price: Free

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Title: 1892: The Geary Act of 1892 [anti-Chinese; extended for 10 years the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882]

Year: 1892

Format: Html

Price: Free

Publisher: Geary.com


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Title: 1902: Chinese Exclusion Act renewed, w/no ending date

Year: 1902

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Title: 1903: Act of February 14, 1903. (32 Statutes-at-Large 825) [no text; restrictive]

Year: 1903

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Price: Free

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Title: 1903: Immigration Act of March 3, 1903 (32 Statutes-at-Large 1213) [no text; excludes polygamists & political

Year: 1903

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Price: Free

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Title: 1906: Naturalization Act of June 29, 1906 (34 Statutes-at-Large 596) [no text: knowledge of English required]

Year: 1906

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Price: Free

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Title: 1907: Immigration Act of Feb 20, 1907 (34 Statutes-at-Large 898) [no text; increases head tax; excludes mental

Year: 1907

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Price: Free

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Title: 1907: US - Japan "Gentlemen's Agreement" [re Japanese immigration]

Year: 1907

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Title: 1913: California Alien Land Law [Chinese & Japanese prohibited from owning property in Calif.]

Year: 1913

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Title: 1917: Immigration Act of Feb 5, 1917 (39 Statutes-at-Large 874) [no text; excludes Asians, illiterates, psycho

Year: 1917

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Title: 1919: First Red Scare

Year: 1919

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Price: Free

Publisher: DigitalBookIdx


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Title: 1921: Emergency Quota Law of May 19, 1921 (42 Statutes-at-Large 5) [no text; sets temp. annual quotas]

Year: 1921

Format: Html

Price: Free

Publisher: UnivKarlova


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Title: 1921: Immigration Act of 1921 (US Statutues at Large, v42, 1921)

Year: 1921

Format: Html

Price: Free

Publisher: UnivKarlova


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Title: 1922: The Cable Act [repeals Expatriation Act but women who marries Asia still loses citizenship]

Year: 1922

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Title: 1924: Immigration Act of May 26, 1924 (43 Statutes-at-Large 153) [prohibits Asians; w/1917 law, governing law

Year: 1924

Format: Html

Price: Free

Publisher: UnivKarlova


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Title: 1940: Alien Registration Act [requires registration & fingerprinting of aliens]

Year: 1940

Format: Html

Price: Free

Publisher: UnivKarlova


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Title: 1948: Displaced Persons Act of June 25, 1948 (62 Statutes-at-Large 1009) [1st US law to permit those fleeing p

Year: 1948

Format: Html

Price: Free

Publisher: UnivKarlova


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Title: 1950: Act of June 16, 1950. (64 Statutes-at-Large 219) [new restrictive legis.; fear of communism]

Year: 1950

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Price: Free

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Title: 1950: Internal Security Act of September 22, 1950 (64 Statutes-at-Large 987) [excl. subversives; aliens requi

Year: 1950

Format: Html

Price: Free

Publisher: UnivKarlova


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Title: 1952: Immigration & Nationality Act of June 27, 1952 (INA) (66 Statutes-at-Large 163) [affirms national origin

Year: 1952

Format: Html

Price: Free

Publisher: UnivKarlova


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Title: 1960: Act of July 14, 1960 (74 Statutes-at-Large 504)

Year: 1960

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Price: Free

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Title: 1965: Immigration & Nationality Act Amendments of October 3, 1965 (79 Statutes-at-Large 911) [abolised nationa

Year: 1965

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Price: Free

Publisher: UnivKarlova


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Title: 1975: Indochina Migration & Refugee Assistance Act of May 23, 1975 (89 Statutes-at-Large 87) [resettlement for

Year: 1975

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Price: Free

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Title: 1980: Refugee Act of March 17, 1980 (94 Statutes-at-Large 102) [removed refugees; reestab. refugee status; red

Year: 1980

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Price: Free

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Title: 1986: Immigration Reform and Control Act of November 6, 1986 (IRCA) (100 Statutes-at-Large 3359) [legalized al

Year: 1986

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