1619-1863: 11.5 million Africans were transported to the US on slave
- 1650s: The first Irish immigrants arrived
- 1790:
o The Coast Guard was created under the name “The Revenue Marine” to protect coastal boundaries.
o The first Asian Indians came to the US as traders and sea captains
- 1790-1820: The first major wave of immigration, mostly from Great Britain
- 1798: Alien and Sedition Acts
o Four federal laws pass to avoid going to war with France
o Three of the laws directly affected immigrants
§ The Alien Act allowed the president to deport aliens who were allegedly dangerous during times of peace
§ The Naturalization Act increased the time that aliens needed to spend in the US to become citizens from five years to fourteen. This law was created with immigrant voting in mind.
§ The Sedition Act that writing or speech with the intentions of defaming Congress or the president to be a misdemeanor. The purpose of the act was to suppress political opposition.
- 1820: The first Chinese immigrants arrived in the US
- 1840-1860: The second major wave of immigration, mostly from Ireland and Germany, including many German-speaking Jews.
- 1849: The California Gold Rush caused many Chinese to migrate in search of work
- 1861: 150,000 Jewish Americans.
- 1844: Anti-Irish Riots in Philadelphia
- 1868: Burlingame Treaty
o Treaty between the US and China that established rights in between the two nations including immigration.
- 1868-1878: Cuban immigrants fled from the Ten Years’ War.
- 1880-1914: Third major wave of immigration, including he first wave of Arab immigrants.
- 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act
o The first federal effort to exclude immigrants based on race and nationality.
o For 10 years, Chinese laborers were prohibited fro immigrating and Chinese residents were prohibited from becoming naturalized citizens.
- 1891-1900: African migration to the US dropped to only 350 people
- 1891: Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) established
- 1895: Another wave of Cuban immigrants, catalyzed by the Cuban War of Independence
- Late 1800s: Inspection stations set up at ports of entry along the southern border
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/mexico704/history/timeline.html
Immigration in U.S. History Edited by Carl Bankston & Danielle Hidalgo
The USIS is the acronym for the United States Information Service. It is the overseas name for the no longer existing United States Information Agency. The USIS is a name that was sometimes used in the past, both officially and non-officially, to refer to at the very least one of the many United States federal agencies of the executive branch which has implemented United States Immigration Law.
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