A Brief History of U.S. Immigration: 1790 to 1914

The first law granting U.S. citizenship by naturalization was the Naturalization Act of 1790. This law allowed naturalization to "free white person(s)", which excluded persons of color. This chapter discusses the early immigration laws from 1790 to 1914 which include The Chinese Exclusion Act and Alien Land Laws.
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[@lizzapaolia959]

God bless the 1790 Immigration Act. 👌🙏👌

[@YOTSUBA_desu]

You lost. 1965 won.

[@Groovey-kj6eu]

20 million😅

[@LechDharma]

Immigration is----and should be----a matter of sovereignty. Shouldn't EVERYONE be able to determine who can or cannot enter their own home, or come onto THEIR property (excluding authorized: LE officers, firemen, and medical personnel)....and have the right to determine who can remain in THEIR home---and who has to leave? Whatever their reasoning?

[@Marimoxley]

If that were the case, white americans would be a minority as land would, and should be primarily owed by native Americans. So basically, it would get very iffy very quickly as white Americans would've claimed that the land was all their when that was most definitely not the case.

[@LechDharma]

@@Marimoxley I am talking about national sovereignty and borders. You are referring to a time (during the age of conquest) when there were hundreds of separate, primitive, indigenous tribes scattered all across North America, with no established laws or government that unified them as a nation. Europeans came to North America and conquered the land, or purchased it, and eventually established nations--with sovereign laws and borders: Canada, and The United States of America. Conquest, and the establishment of sovereign borders, is the history of the world.

[@5ilasTheViru5]

I wish they'd picked a native English speaker. Its never considered racist if we prefer the opposite, but I feel like I can't prefer an English speaker for anything.

[@lisamarie4197]

What?