Positives of the Emancipation Proclamation

-Lincoln stole initiative from Radicals. -Issuing a military measure Lincoln pacified Northern Conservatives. -Gained support of European Liberals. -Pushed border states towards emancipation (Maryland/Missouri) -Increased slaves desire to go north as troops

Negatives of the Emancipation Proclamation

-it had limited practicality because it applied to areas where union had no authority. -exempted slaves states in the Union and parts of Confed. under union control

The 1906 Naturalization Act: established the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization in the Commerce Department to standardize naturalization procedures. The law also required that some knowledge of the English language was a requirement for American citizenship.

The 1907 Immigration Act: part of a series of reforms aimed at further restricting the increasing number of immigrants. The Dillingham Commission was formed as a result of the law in response to growing political concern about the effects of immigration in the United States. The subsequent Dillingham Commission report discriminated between Old and New Immigration and concluded that migration of southern and eastern Europeans posed a serious threat to American society and culture. The Dillingham Commission report led to further stringent and specific immigration restrictions.

The outbreak of WW2 led to the Alien Registration Act that required the registration and fingerprinting of all aliens in the United States over the age of 14 years old. Another objective of the law was to undermine the American Communist Party.