| Timeline for Immigration |
| 1882 |
| (05/06)
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Congress enacts the Chinese Exclusion Act, prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years. The restriction was eventually made permanent. (Digital History ID 569)
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| 1897 |
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President Grover Cleveland vetoes literacy bill for immigrants
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| 1921 |
| (05/19)
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President Warren Harding signs a restrictive immigration quota act which limits yearly immigration to a maximum of 3 percent of any nationality’s numbers in 1910. A 1924 act reduced the limit to 2 percent of the number in 1890. (Digital History ID 1485)
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| 1965 |
| (10/03)
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The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 abolishes the national quota system of immigration. (Digital History ID 931)
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| 1982 |
| (06/15)
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The Supreme Court rules that undocumented immigrant have a right to free public education. (Digital History ID 1359)
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