| Date | White Male | Female | Black American | Hispanics | Native American | Asian American |
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| 1790 | 21, property owner | Until 1807 New Jersey, 21, property owner | NJ, Penn, CT, must be free, 21, property owner. | ** | ** | ** |
**Naturalization Act. Only free white people can become citizens.
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| 1791 | |||||||
| 1792 | No longer require property ownership | CT, NJ exclude African Americans from voting. | |||||
| 1848 | Grants citizenship to Mexicans in newly acquired territories. Must speak English, be male. | ||||||
| 1849 | |||||||
| 1850 | California foreign miners tax | ||||||
| 1851 | |||||||
| 1852 | Territorial law passed banning Chinese from voting. WA | ||||||
| 1853 | |||||||
| 1854 | People v. Hall. Chinese can't give testimony in court.Hawaii, CA | ||||||
| 1858 | Calif. Passes law banning entry of Chinese and "Mongolians". | ||||||
| 1859 | |||||||
| 1860 | ME, NH, VT, RI, MASS allow African Americans to vote. | ||||||
| 1861 | |||||||
| 1862 | Chinese "police tax" in California. | ||||||
| 1863 | No testifying in court. Chinese. Washington. | ||||||
| 1864 | Chinese poll tax in WA. | ||||||
| 1869 | Wyoming territory women get the vote. | ||||||
| 1870 | Utah women get the vote. | 15th Amndmt, can't deny citizen right to vote based on race, color, previous servitude. | |||||
| 1871 | |||||||
| 1872 | CA drops ban on Chinese being banned from testifying in court. | ||||||
| 1875 | Supreme Court decides that just because women are citizens, does not mean they have a right to vote. That decision to be made at state level. | ||||||
| 1876 | The beginning of Grandfather clauses, poll taxes and literacy tests in some southern states. | Two Supreme Court Decisions in 1876 narrowed scope of enforcement under Enforcement and Force Acts in 1870, designed to assist with 15th ammendment, and together with the end of Reconstruction and removal of federal troops, climate in which violence (among other things) was used to depress African American vote. | |||||
| 1879 | CA attempts to bar Chinese from employment in state, ruled unconstitutional. | ||||||
| 1880 | |||||||
| 1881 | |||||||
| 1882 | Chinese denied citizenship rights. Chinese Exclusion Act. | ||||||
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| 1884 | Native Americans denied citizenship | Chinese Exclusion Act ammended, certificate required for reentry into US. | |||||
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| 1886 | |||||||
| 1887 | Congress recinds women's sufferage in Utah (polygamy) | Dawes act grants citizenship only if tribal affiliation given up. | |||||
| 1888 | Indian women who marry white men can become citizens. | Chinese reentry certificates nullified. | |||||
| 1889 | Chee Chan Ping V US upholds Chinese Exclusion Act. | ||||||
| 1890 | Wyoming first state to grant women sufferage. | Mississippi plan used literacy tests to disenfranchise African Americans | |||||
| 1891 | |||||||
| 1892 | Geary Law. Chinese must register. | ||||||
| 1893 | Colorado grants womens sufferage. | New Zealand the first nation state to grant women the right to vote. | |||||
| 1894 | Japanese ineligible for naturalization. | ||||||
| 1895 | |||||||
| 1896 | Utah and Idaho grant women sufferage. | Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Ct upholds discriminatory voting practices. | |||||
| 1897 | |||||||
| 1898 | Wong Kim Ark V US decides that Chinese born in US can't be stripped of citizenship. | US annexes HI. At time of contact with US almost a million native Hawaiians. At annexation, fewer than 40,000. | |||||
| 1901 | Congress grants citizenship to Native Americans living in Oklahoma. | Chinese Exclusion Act extended 10 years. | Sung V US unreasonable search and seizure , cruel and unusual punishment and trial without jury OK in deportation proceedings. | ||||
| 1904 | Chinese Exclusion Act made indefinate. | ||||||
| 1905 | CA marriage between white and "Mongolians" forbidden. | ||||||
| 1906 | |||||||
| 1907 | Japanese unable to reimmigrate to US. | ||||||
| 1910 | Washington grants women sufferage. | ||||||
| 1911 | California grants. | ||||||
| 1912 | OR, KS, AZ grant women sufferage. | Tun v Edsell. American born Tang Tun refused reentry into US. | |||||
| 1913 | AK. | ||||||
| 1914 | MT, NV. | ||||||
| 1915 | Guinn v Supreme Court invalidated voting requirements that included grandfather clauses. | WA. Asian immigrants barred from any profits from seafood. | |||||
| 1916 | |||||||
| 1917 | Russia grants it's women the right to vote! | Alien Land Law All asian immigrants except Japanese and filipinos barred by order of Congress. | |||||
| 1918 | SD, OK | Asian servicemen can be naturalized. | |||||
| 1919 | TX | If you served in Military WWI granted citizenship. | |||||
| 1920 | 19th Amndmt grants sufferage to women in all states. | ||||||
| 1921 | |||||||
| 1922 | OZAWA case. Japanese heritage denied right to become naturalized citizens. _____Cable Act declares any US woman marrying an alien ineligible for citizenship loses her own. | ||||||
| 1923 | More states and alien land laws CA, ID, MT, OR, WA | US v Bhagat Singh Thind: Asian Indians not eligible for naturalized citizenship. Webb v O'Brien rules sharecropping illegal-it is a ruse to allow Japanese to use and possess land. | |||||
| 1924 | Indian Citizenship Act grants blanket citizenship, but many western states did not allow them to vote. | ||||||
| 1925 | Phillipinos barred from citizenship. Unless in Navy 3 years min. | ||||||
| 1930 | Ammendment to Cable Act, no American born woman who loses her citizenship for marrying cannot be denied naturalization at a later date. |