The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by Pres.Chester A. Arthurin 1882. It lasted for 10 years and was extended for another 10 years by the 1892Geary Act, which also required that people of Chinese origin carry identification certificates or facedeportation. Later measures...
The meaning of INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830 is one of the first legislative steps in creating the reservation system from which 25 U.S.C. § 174 is derived. Despite a 1789 act of Congress, 1 Stat. 137, declaring that the land rights of Native Americans mus
of the Constitution to formerly enslaved people, before they could rejoin the Union. In February 1869, Congress approved the15th Amendment(adopted in 1870), which guaranteed that a citizen’s right to vote would not be denied “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”...
Congress sought to enforce those guarantees through the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Enforcement Act of 1870, and the Civil Rights Acts of 1871 and 1875, each of which solidified protection of the rights of blacks by expanding the rights of national citizenship. In the 1870's and 1880's,...
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