2. Immigration Periodization
Period of Colonial Immigration (1607-1775)
Period of Immigration Regulations (1775-1820)
Period of Asylum Immigration (1821-1848)
Period of Industrial Immigration (1849-1920)
Period of Restricted Immigration (1882-1964)
Period of Modern Immigration (1965-2000)
3. Colonial Immigration (1500s-
1775)
Groups of settlers from Europe came and established
colonies in different parts of America.
1620
Plymouth,
Massachusetts
Religious
Freedom
1607
Jamestown,
Virginia
Fortune & Gold
1598
Spanish
Southwest
Proselytizing
1608
New France
Fur Trade
4. Colonial Immigration (1500s-
1775)
Increasing numbers of people came to America in
indentured servitude or slavery
20 African slaves arrive in Jamestown (1619)
5. Immigration Regulations
(1775-1820)
Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
War of 1812
First few immigration regulations:
Naturalization Act of (1790)
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Prohibition of slave imports (1808)
Census of immigrating aliens required by shipmasters (1819)
6. Asylum Immigration
(1821-1848)
Irish Potato Famine (1846)
Crop failure in Germany
European Revolutions (1848)
Irish, German mass immigration
to America
7. Industrial Immigration
(1849-1881)
Gold Rush lures many immigrant
workers, especially Chinese
(1849)
American census begins
surveying the nativity of citizens
(1850)
Homestead Act land provisions
attract European immigrants
(1862)
Irish and Chinese workers hired
to build transcontinental railroad
(1863)
8. Restricted Immigration
(1882-1964)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Alien Contract Labor Law (1885)
Establishment of Bureau of Immigration (1891)
Ellis Island opens (1892)
Literacy test instated for immigrants (1917)
Emergency Quota Act (1921)
Establishment of of Border Patrol (1924)
Immigration Act of 1924
Oriental Exclusion Act (1924)
Alien Registration Act (1940)
9. Modern Immigration
(1965-Present)
Immigration and Nationality
Act (1965)
Refugee Act (1980)
Immigration Reform and
Control Act (1986)
Illegal Immigration Reform
and Immigrant Responsibility
Act (1996)
Patriot Act (2001)
10. Conclusion
Continuity
Immigrants come to America
looking for economic
opportunity, religious freedom,
and freedom from political
unrest
Nativism
Change
Fluctuating numbers of
immigrants
Periods of open doors for
immigration, and periods of
stringent limitations on
immigrants
