Week Three

Question 1

1965 Hart-Cellar Act

Answer 1

abolished national origins quota

Question 2

1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act

Answer 2

Path to legalization, employer sanctions, granted amnesty to many illegal immigrants, signed by Ronald Reagan

Question 3

1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act

Answer 3

under the Clinton administration, it set up machinery for deportation 3 and 10-year bans

Question 4

HR 4437

Answer 4

made it a crime to even be present in the US as an illegal immigrant

Question 5

1917 Immigration Act

Answer 5

Restricted Asian Immigration, Exclusion base on disability or morality, literacy tests

Question 6

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 6

Barred Chinese immigrants from naturalization

Question 7

1868 14th Amendment

Answer 7

birthplace citizenship

Question 8

1870 Naturalization Act

Answer 8

Enshrined into law US citizenship for African Americans (Not until 1924 for Native Americans)

Question 9

1882 Immigration Act

Answer 9

Created a class of undesirable immigrants

Question 10

1891 Immigration Act

Answer 10

Established federal immigration bureaucracy

Question 11

1921 and 1924 Immigration Acts

Answer 11

Strict National Origins quotas restricting immigration from East and South Europe barring Asian Immigration

Question 12

An executive action on immigration policy that bypassed legislative paralysis

Answer 12

DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)

Question 13

Flash potential of Immigration politics

Answer 13

Salience and whatever amplifies it matters; it can mobilize people to become anti-immigrant even if they were not feeling threatened in the first place

Question 14

1790 Naturalization Act

Answer 14

Any “Free White person of Good Character”

Question 15

1924 Johnson-Reed Act

Answer 15

Stopped immigration from South and Eastern Europe, to make a more “homogenous nation”

Question 16

The Hart-Celler Act

Answer 16

Post WW II act passed at the Federal level and marked a transition away from an exclusionary era to an expansionary era of US immigration policy