1492-1790: Great European Migration and Colonial America
Interactive Timeline: Click the blue arrows to see the rest of our immigration/migration history!
1501-1865: Slave Trade and Underground Railroad
1630-1840: Indentured Servants
Indentured Servitude - Blocked by district
1803-1853: Westward Expansion
1830-1850: Indian Removal Act & The Trail of Tears
1840s-1850s: Irish, English, and German Immigration
1848-1882: Chinese Immigration
1882: Chinese Exclusion Act
1892-1954: Ellis Island and Angel Island (1910-1940)
1916-1970: The Great Migration
Ted Talk: Author Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of the outpouring of 6,000,000 African Americans from the Jim Crow South to cities in the North and West between World War I and the 1970s.
Textbook pg. 506-507
1917: Puerto Ricans Become US Citizens
1924: Immigration Act
1942-1946: WWII and Japanese Internment
1942: Bracero Program for Farmworkers
1948: Displaced Persons Act
1965: Immigration and Naturalization Act
1986: Immigration Reform Act
Current Immigrant Story Collections
Other Stories
Causes: Life before (Im)migrating
Coming to the US
Experiences in the US
Current Media and Politics on Immigration
Effects of (Im)migration
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