https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb en-us 2023-04-25 19:40:44 UTC 2026-01-01 20:18:54 UTC hello@padlet.com kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567751407 The Fourteenth Amendment extended citizenship to include African Americans and all people who were born or naturalized in the United States. The law protected the basic rights of citizenship and guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law. The amendment states, “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”]]> 2023-04-25 19:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567751407 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567754895 Although the new Constitution guaranteed the rights and freedoms of citizens, the issue of citizenship was not defined well. The Constitution defined citizenship as open to persons born or naturalized in the US. It stated that “The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several states.” ]]> 2023-04-25 19:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567754895 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567763070 The Articles established a framework of government for the thirteen states. Citizenship was not defined clearly. It stated that “free inhabitants of the states shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states.”]]> 2023-04-25 19:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567763070 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567765891 The Naturalization Act of 1790 decided who got to be an American citizen specifically. It limited access to citizenship to white immigrants who had resided in the U.S. for at least two years and had children under twenty-one. It left out groups like indentured servants, slaves, free Blacks, and Asians. ]]> 2023-04-25 19:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567765891 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567768817 This act increased the period of required residence in the U.S. to be qualified for citizenship from two to five years. It also introduced a two-step naturalization process. Immigrants intending to naturalize would have to go to their local courts and declare their intention at least three years prior to their formal application. They also have to take an oath of allegiance to the US and renounce their former sovereign.]]> 2023-04-25 20:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567768817 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567772022 The Naturalization Act, one of the four Alien and Sedition Acts, extended the residency required for citizenship from five to fourteen years. ]]> 2023-04-25 20:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567772022 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567774585 The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, famously known as the Louisiana Purchase, and guaranteed citizenship to those who previously held French citizenship.]]> 2023-04-25 20:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567774585 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567775191 The Steerage Act provided for an accounting of incoming immigrants.]]> 2023-04-25 20:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567775191 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567783069 During the war with Mexico, the U.S. acquired more territory in the southeast through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Around eighty-thousand Mexicans within the new borders became American citizens.]]> 2023-04-25 20:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567783069 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567784523 This amendment abolished slavery but did not grant formerly enslaved people the right of citizenship.]]> 2023-04-25 20:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567784523 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567786714 The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent were not citizens of the U.S.]]> 2023-04-25 20:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567786714 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567788786 Signed by President Chester A. Arthur, this act banned the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years and prohibited the Chinese who were already in the US from becoming citizens. ]]> 2023-04-25 20:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567788786 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567789900 During this case, it was ruled that the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment would extend to include native-born Chinese Americans.]]> 2023-04-25 20:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567789900 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567790844 Legislation that restricted the number of immigrants permitted to enter the US, creating a system of quotas that mandated how many immigrants could come from each country. “It limited the number of immigrants that could be admitted to the U.S. to two percent of the total number of individuals from each nationality that resided in the United States in 1890.” Border Patrol was also established.]]> 2023-04-25 20:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567790844 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567792804 This act curtailed the quota system established in the 1920s and permitted larger numbers of non-Europeans to settle in the US. It resulted in a dramatic rise in the number of Asian and Latin American immigrants, as well as opened the country to more people from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. This act also gave immigration preference to highly skilled immigrants and to people with family members already in the US. ]]> 2023-04-25 20:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567792804 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567794967 The U.S. government incarcerated 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese descent, regardless of citizenship.]]> 2023-04-25 20:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567794967 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567800210 Provided naturalization for children of parents who illegally settled in the U.S.]]> 2023-04-25 20:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2567800210 kls2501_2 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2570757620 This Act allowed for focus on an immigrant’s political ideology to determine if they are fit to enter the U.S. The law was designed to keep Communists out. After the Cold War, restrictionists called for an update on immigration law as a result of the threat of the Communist Party.]]> 2023-04-27 18:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2570757620 ewj25011 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577183238 Made some women’s citizenship independent of their marital status. (Allowed a woman to keep her US citizenship when marrying a non American man).]]> 2023-05-03 18:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577183238 ewj25011 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577183975 Homer P. Snyder sponsors the General Citizenship Act, allowing all Native Americans born in the US to become US citizens. ]]> 2023-05-03 18:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577183975 ewj25011 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577184978 American Citizens could renounce their American citizenship on American soil if approved by the attorney general. This causes 5400 citizens to renounce their citizenship after failing the loyalty questionnaire after the end of the internment camps.]]> 2023-05-03 18:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577184978 ewj25011 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577186016 Court case resulting in the loss of citizenship for a person who votes in Mexican elections.]]> 2023-05-03 18:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577186016 ewj25011 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577186384 Court case which decides that US born citizenship cannot be lost because of military desertion.]]> 2023-05-03 18:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577186384 ewj25011 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577186922 The Immigration and Naturalization Service is replaced with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, US Immigration and Custom Enforcement, and the US Customs and Border Protection.

]]> 2023-05-03 18:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577186922 ewj25011 https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577193630 A non-american woman could gain US citizenship after marrying an American citizen]]> 2023-05-03 18:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kls2501_2/ovub2acmsrp616jb/wish/2577193630