U.S. History: Immigrants / Immigration: Timelines, Bibliographies, Gen. Works
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TIMELINE: Key Dates & Landmarks in US Immigration History | 2006 | Html | Free | Harvard | |
TIMELINE: Landmarks in Immigration History | 2005-? | Html | Free | DigitalHistory | |
TIMELINE: The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 | n.d. | Html | Free | Libr Congress | |
1795: The Naturalization Act of 1795 [Alien enemies act; deportation permitted] | 1795 | Graphic Html | Free | EarlyAmerica | |
1819: Steerage Act [no text] | 1819 | none | |||
1847: Passenger Act [no text] | 1847 | none | |||
1855: Passenger Act [no text] | 1855 | none | |||
1862: Homestead Act, May 20, 1862 | 1876 | Html | PBS | ||
1864: Act to Encourage Immigration [no text; Civl War, to encourage replacement immigrant labor] | 1864 | ||||
1868: Naturalization Convention with Baden; July 19 | 1868 | Html | Free | YaleU-Law | |
1868: Naturalization Convention with Belgium: November 16 | 1868 | Html | Free | YaleU-Law | |
1868: Naturalization Treaty with Bavaria; May 26 | 1868 | Html | Free | YaleU-Law | |
1870: Naturalization Convention with Austria-Hungary; September, 20 | 1870 | Html | Free | YaleU-Law | |
1875: March 3, 1875. (18 Stat. 477; anti-Chinese "coolie" labor; denies entry to prostitutes & criminals; no T | 1875 | ||||
1880: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1880 | 1880 | Free | |||
1882: Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 | Html | Free | MtHolyoke | |
1882: Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 | Html | Free | CivicsOnline | |
1884: Chinese Exclusion Act [July 5, 1884; extends exclusion for another 10 years] | 1885 | Free | MtHolyoke | ||
1885: Alien Contract Labor Law 1885 [no text; restricts contract labor] | 1885 | Free | |||
1891: Immigration Act of 1891 [no text; added exlusions to paupers, idiots, the insane, diseased persons, con | 1891 | Html | Free | ||
1902: Chinese Exclusion Act | 1902] | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard | |
1902: Chinese Exclusion Act renewed, w/no ending date | 1902 | Free | |||
1903: Act of February 14, 1903. (32 Statutes-at-Large 825) [no text; restrictive] | 1903 | Free | |||
1903: Immigration Act of March 3, 1903 (32 Statutes-at-Large 1213) [no text; excludes polygamists & political | 1903 | Free | |||
1906: Naturalization Act of June 29, 1906 (34 Statutes-at-Large 596) [no text: knowledge of English required] | 1906 | Free | |||
1907: Immigration Act of Feb 20, 1907 (34 Statutes-at-Large 898) [no text; increases head tax; excludes mental | 1907 | Free | |||
1907: US - Japan "Gentlemen's Agreement" [re Japanese immigration] | 1907 | Free | |||
1913: California Alien Land Law [Chinese & Japanese prohibited from owning property in Calif.] | 1913 | Free | |||
1917: Immigration Act of Feb 5, 1917 (39 Statutes-at-Large 874) [no text; excludes Asians, illiterates, psycho | 1917 | Free | |||
1918: Sedition Act | Html | BYU | |||
1919: First Red Scare | 1919 | Html | Free | DigitalBookIdx | |
1921: Emergency Quota Law of May 19, 1921 (42 Statutes-at-Large 5) [no text; sets temp. annual quotas] | 1921 | Html | Free | UnivKarlova | |
1921: Immigration Act of 1921 (US Statutues at Large, v42, 1921) | 1921 | Html | Free | UnivKarlova | |
1922: The Cable Act [repeals Expatriation Act but women who marries Asia still loses citizenship] | 1922 | ||||
1924: Immigration Act of May 26, 1924 (43 Statutes-at-Large 153) [prohibits Asians; w/1917 law, governing law | 1924 | Html | Free | UnivKarlova | |
1940: Alien Registration Act [requires registration & fingerprinting of aliens] | 1940 | Html | Free | UnivKarlova | |
1948: Displaced Persons Act of June 25, 1948 (62 Statutes-at-Large 1009) [1st US law to permit those fleeing p | 1948 | Html | Free | UnivKarlova | |
1950: Act of June 16, 1950. (64 Statutes-at-Large 219) [new restrictive legis.; fear of communism] | 1950 | Free | |||
1950: Internal Security Act of September 22, 1950 (64 Statutes-at-Large 987) [excl. subversives; aliens requi | 1950 | Html | Free | UnivKarlova | |
1952: Immigration & Nationality Act of June 27, 1952 (INA) (66 Statutes-at-Large 163) [affirms national origin | 1952 | Html | Free | UnivKarlova | |
1960: Act of July 14, 1960 (74 Statutes-at-Large 504) | 1960 | Free | |||
1965: Immigration & Nationality Act Amendments of October 3, 1965 (79 Statutes-at-Large 911) [abolised nationa | 1965 | Free | UnivKarlova | ||
1975: Indochina Migration & Refugee Assistance Act of May 23, 1975 (89 Statutes-at-Large 87) [resettlement for | 1975 | Free | |||
1980: Refugee Act of March 17, 1980 (94 Statutes-at-Large 102) [removed refugees; reestab. refugee status; red | 1980 | Free | |||
1986: Immigration Reform and Control Act of November 6, 1986 (IRCA) (100 Statutes-at-Large 3359) [legalized al | 1986 | Free | |||
1990: Immigration Act of Nov 29, 1990 (104 Statutes-at-Large 4978) [comprehensive legis; increased quotas] | 1990 | Free | |||
1996: Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of September 30, 1996 (IIRIRA) (110 Statutes | 1996 | Free | |||
A Selective Bibiography of German-American Studies (in Merrill) | 1994/08 | Html | Free | IndianaUPurdue | |
Immigration Legislative Sources [bibliography] | n.d. | Html | Free | UMaryland | |
International Bibliography of German-Americana [searchable only] | 1999 | Html | Free | IndianaUPurdue | |
The Immigration journal [v 1, #1-#9, Mar 1916 - Jan 1917] [Governmental topics] | 1916-7Wash. | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard | |
Univ. of Wisc.-Madison Scandinavian-American Publisher Holdings, 1840-1920 [Danish, Swedish, Norwegian] (comp | 2004-5 | Free | UWiscMadison | ||
Abbott, Lyman | America In The Making | 1911 NHavn | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
Abbott, Lyman | The Immigration Problem (in: J. of Social Sci., xliv, Sept., 1906) | 1906 | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
Adams, Willi Paul | A German-American Chronology | 1990/3 | Html | Free | IndianaUPurdue |
Adams, Willi Paul | Germans in America]: Bibliography | 1990/3 | Html | Free | IndianaUPurdue |
Alexander, June Granatir, 1948- | The immigrant church and community: Pittsburgh's Slovak Catholics and Lutherans, 1880-1915 | 1987 Pittsb | PDF Graphic | Free | UPittsburghPr |
Amer. Sociological Soc. & the Comm. of 1 | Immigration, some new phases of the problem: ... addresses, International Immigration Congress, San Francisco, | 1915]SFrnsc | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 | They Who Knock at our Gates: A complete gospel of immigration [attitudes] | 1914 Bost. | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
Baird, Charles Washington | History of the Huguenot Emigration to America (2 vols.) | 1885] | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
Beard, Annie E. S. | Our Foreign-born Citizens: What they have done for America [biography] | c1922 NY | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
Bernard, William S., et. al. (eds.) | American Immigration Policy, a Reappraisal [National Comm. on Immigration Policy] | 1950 NY | Questia | subs | Harper |
Bierstadt, Edward Hale | Our Immigration Problem: A Possible Way Out [attitudes; employment] | 1923?] | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Race, Language & Culture [modern populations of Amer.; Anthropometric Invest.] | 1940 NY | Questia | subs | Macmillan |
Bodnar, John E., 1944- | Steelton: Immigration and industrialization, 1870-1940 | 1990 Pittsb | PDF Graphic | Free | UPittsburghPr |
Bogen, Elizabeth | Immigration in New York | 1987 | Questia | subs | Praeger |
Bonaparte, Charles J. | The independence of the Holy See: paper, 1st American Catholic Cong., Baltimore, Nov l889 & The Catholic Churc | 1889 Balt. | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
Bostwick, Arthur Elmore 1860-1942 | The Different West as seen by a transplanted easterner [national characistics, Amer.; Miss. River Valley] | 1913 Chi. | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
Brewer, Daniel Chauncey | The Conquest of New England by the Immigrant | 1926 NY | Questia | subs | Putnams |
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr. | American Unionism & US Immigration Policy | 2001 | Html PDF | CIS-Cornell | |
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr. | Mass Immigration & the National Interest | 1992 Armonk | Questia | subs | MESharpe |
Bromwell, William Jeremy, 1834-74 | History of immigration to the US: number, sex, age, occupation, country of birth, 1819-55: passengers arriving | 1856 NY | Graphic Html | Free | MOA-UMich |
Brooks, John Graham | The Human Side of Immigration (in: J. of Social Sci., xliv, Sept., 1906) | 1906 NY | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |
Buenker, John D & Nicholas C Burckel | Immigration & Ethnicity: A Guide to Information Sources [bibliography] | 1977 Detroi | Questia | subs | Gale |
Burr, Clinton Stoddard | America's Race Heritage: ... the diffusion of ancestral stocks in the US during 3 centuries of national expans | 1922 | Graphic PDF | Free | Harvard |