Immigration Laws
First major federal restriction on immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act? (1882)
Civil rights leader who advocated for non-violent direct action?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Naturalised 'free white persons'
What is the 1790 Naturalisation Act?
This 1887 law divided tribal lands into private plots and sold “surplus” land to white settlers.
What is the Dawes Act (General Allotment Act)?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Added literacy tests
What is the Immigration Act 1917?
This 1955–56 protest began after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that Black people could not be U.S. citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This 1830 law authorized the forced relocation of Native peoples from the Southeast to lands west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Legitimised Jim Crow
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Created the US border patrol
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This labor leader co-founded the United Farm Workers and led grape boycotts for farmworkers’ rights.
Who is César Chávez?
Gave Black people the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
President Andrew Jackson justified Indian removal as part of this ideology, which saw expansion as divinely ordained.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Ended the seperate but equal doctrine
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
This 1965 immigration law ended the racist national origins quota system and opened U.S. immigration to Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart–Celler Act)?
This 1968 Los Angeles protest involved thousands of Mexican American students walking out of schools to demand better education.
What are the East L.A. Walkouts?
Passed in 1924, this act finally granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans.
What is the Indian Citizenship Act?
Federal court case that challenged racial segregation in the education system of Orange County, California.
What is Mendez v westminster?
The period in U.S. history from the 1890s to the 1920s, marked by the resurgence of white supremacy, disenfranchisement of Black Americans, and frequent lynchings, is often referred to by this term.
What is the Nadir of American Race Relations?
The President can deport non-citizens
Alien Act
The occupation of a town in South Dakota in 1973
What is Wounded Knee?
In 1923, the Supreme Court ruled that Japanese immigrants could not become naturalized U.S. citizens because they were not considered “free white persons,” reinforcing racial barriers to citizenship.
What is Ozawa v. United States?
Creation of the reservation system
What is the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851?
Declared the grandfatehr clause unconstituional
What is Guinn v. United States (1915)?