Examples of Page Act of 1875 in the following topics:
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- The Chinese Exclusion Act was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in U.S. history.
- She suggests attending to the intersections of race, gender, and U.S. citizenship in order to both understand the restraints of such a historical tendency and make visible Chinese female immigration experiences, including the Page Act of 1875 .
- After the Act's passage, Chinese men in the U.S. had little chance of ever reuniting with their wives, or of starting families in their new homes.
- When the act was extended in 1902, it required "each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence.
- One of the critics of the Chinese Exclusion Act was the anti-slavery/anti-imperialist Republican Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts , who described the Act as "nothing less than the legalization of racial discrimination. "
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- Women found occupations in all walks of frontier life.
- A handful of women, no more than 600, braved both the elements and male-dominated culture to become teachers in several of the more established cities in the West.
- Protestant missionaries eventually joined the women in their efforts, and Congress responded by passing both the Comstock Law (named after its chief proponent, anti-obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock) in 1873 to ban the spread of “lewd and lascivious literature” through the mail, and the subsequent Page Act of 1875 to prohibit transportation of women into the United States for employment as prostitutes.
- A native of County Cork, Ireland, she and her sister were brought as young children to the United States by their mother around 1850 to escape the poverty of the Great Famine.
- During her time there, she led a rescue of dozens of miners in the Cassiar Mountains.
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- Supreme Court to rule in 1875 that immigration was a federal responsibility.
- In 1875, the nation passed its first immigration law, the Page Act of 1875, also known as the "Asian Exclusion Act."
- In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- The act stated that there was a limited amount of immigrants of Chinese descent allowed into the United States.
- The Immigration Act of 1891 established a commissioner of immigration in the Department of the Treasury.
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- Census data, Asian Americans comprise 4.8% of the U.S. population, with an additional 5.6% of the population having partial Asian ancestry.
- In 1875, the Page Act expressly prohibited the entry of immigrants deemed "undesirable," including Asian men seeking contract labor and Asian women who were suspected of engaging in prostitution.
- The Page Act was followed by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which suspended all Chinese immigration for ten years, and the Geary Act of 1892, which provided Chinese immigrants to carry resident papers and prevented them from full access to U.S. legal proceedings.
- Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
- A demographic shift followed the passage of the act, and the Asian American population became increasingly well-educated and had growing access to material resources in the United States.
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- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed forms of discrimination against women and minorities.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of United States legislation outlawing major forms of discrimination against women as well as racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities.
- Kennedy called for passage of the bill, which he said would "give all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public - hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments," as well as "greater protection for the right to vote. " Emulating the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which established equal treatment in public accommodations, Kennedy's civil rights bill included provisions to ban discrimination in public accommodations.
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that prohibits discrimination in voting.
- Johnson, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
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- This discrimination made her more interested in the politics of race and improving the education of blacks.
- The year before, the Supreme Court had struck down the federal Civil Rights Act of 1875, which banned racial discrimination in public accommodations.
- The conductor and two men dragged Wells out of the car.
- While Wells was out of town in Natchez, Mississippi, a white mob invaded her friends' store.
- One hundred pages long, "A Red Record" launched Wells's anti-lynching campaign with the charge that "ten thousand Negroes have been killed in cold blood, without the formality of judicial trial and legal execution. " It also documented the status of black Americans since Emancipation.
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- This discrimination made her more interested in the politics of race and improving the education of blacks.
- The year before, Supreme Court had struck down the federal Civil Rights Act of 1875, which banned racial discrimination in public accommodations.
- The Red Record is a one hundred page pamphlet describing lynching in the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation, while also describing blacks' struggles since the time of the Emancipation Proclamation.
- An ignorance of lynching in the U.S., according to Wells, developed over a span of ten years.
- Wells lists fourteen pages of statistics concerning lynching done from 1892–1895; she also includes pages of graphic stories detailing lynching done in the South.
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- Grant signed the Electoral Commission Act that set up a 15-member commission to settle the disputed 1876 election of 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats.
- With the removal of Northern troops, the President had no method to enforce Reconstruction, thus this "back room" deal signaled the end of American Reconstruction.
- The Democrats gained control of the Senate, and now had complete control of Congress having already taken over the House in 1875.
- Hayes vetoed bills from the Democrats that outlawed the Republican Force Acts, however, with the military underfunded, Hayes could not adequately enforce these laws.
- Evaluate the policies of Rutherford B.
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- The Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act of 1862 provided for the establishment of public colleges for "liberal and practical education".
- Under the act, each eligible state received a total of 30,000 acres (120 km2) of federal land, either within or contiguous with its boundaries, for each member of congress the state had as of the census of 1860.
- Under provision six of the Act, "No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act. " This was a reference to the recent secession of several Southern states and the currently raging American Civil War.
- Though the 1890 Act granted cash instead of land, it granted colleges under that act the same legal standing as the 1862 Act colleges; hence, the term "land-grant college" properly applies to both groups.
- By 1875 the compulsory labor requirement was dropped, but male students were to have an hour a day of military training in order to meet the requirements of the Morrill Land Grant College Act.
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- Under the act, each eligible state received a total of 30,000 acres of federal land, either within or contiguous to its boundaries, for each member of Congress held by the state.
- In reference to the recent secession of several Southern states and the currently raging American Civil War, the Act stipulated that, "No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act."
- The 1862 Morrill Act allocated a total of 17.4 million acres of land, which, when sold, yielded a collective endowment of $7.55 million.
- By 1875, the compulsory labor requirement was dropped, but male students were to have an hour a day of military training in order to meet the requirements of the Morrill Land-Grant College Act.
- Kansas State University was the first college funded by land grants under the Morrill Act of 1862.