History

This page contains two timelines, one that contains the major immigration events that have occurred in America’s history, and one that contains more specific events relating to Hispanic immigration. My hope is that these timelines will provide you with a better understanding of how our nation has dealt with this social issue.

History of Immigration by Grace Velarde [1]

Definitions of the Acts, policies, and terms presented in the above timeline:

  • Ellis Island: located in New York Harbor, the United States’ first immigration station opens in January.
  • Immigration Act of 1917: Placed during World War I, this act requires immigrants who enter America to be literate. It also causes most Asian immigrants to not be able to enter.
  • Immigration Act of 1924: Also placed during World War I, this act puts a yearly limit through national origin quotas, which favored some nationality groups over others, on the amount of immigrants allowed to enter America.
  • Immigration and Nationality Act: ends the national origin quotas
  • Simpson-Mazzoli Act: Amnesty or pardon is given to illegal immigrants through this Act.
  • DREAM Act: DREAM stands for Development, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors. This Act would help Dreamers, or undocumented immigrants brought illegally to the United States by their parents when they were children, seek legal status. This bill and following versions of it do not pass.
  • DACA: DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Unlike the DREAM Act, DACA does not provide Dreamers a path to legal status but it does provide temporary protection from deportation.
  • Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States: Travel and immigration restrictions are placed on six majority Muslim countries along with North Korea and Venezuela.

 

This second timeline caters to the history of Hispanic immigration to the United States, specifically. Here is the URL to my interactive tiki-toki timeline:

To see this timeline click the image.

Here is the pdf version of it as well [2]:

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Bibliography:

[1] History.com Editors, History.com Editors. “U.S. Immigration Timeline.” History, A&E Television Networks, 21 Dec. 2018, www.history.com/topics/immigration/immigration-united-states-timeline.

[2] “Timeline | Latino Americans.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 2013, www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/timeline/.