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Defining Documents in American History: American Citizenship

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




The Development of American Citizenship




Naturalization Act of 1790




The Bill of Rights




Of Man, as a Member of Society, Lectures on Law




Alien and Sedition Acts




Louisiana Purchase Treaty




Speech in Congress on the War of 1812




Democracy in America




On Texan Independence




Petition to the US Congress Regarding the Great Influx of Roman Catholics




Declaration of Principles of the Native American Convention




Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo




Progress and Extent of Immigration Prior to 1819




Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution




American Indians and Citizenship




Cherokee Nation v. Georgia




Address of the Lake Mohonk Conference on Indian Affairs




Indian Citizenship Act




Indian Civil Rights Act




African Americans and Citizenship




Dred Scott v. Sandford




Civil Rights Act of 1866




Civil Rights Act of 1875




United States v. Cruikshank




Plessy v. Ferguson




Guinn v. United States




Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) plus Enforcement Decree for Same (1955)




Civil Rights Act of 1964




LBJ: “The American Promise”




Speech before Congress on Voting Rights




Latinos/as and Citizenship




A Foreigner in My Own Land




"On Seizing Land from Native Californians"




Walt Whitman: The Spanish Element in Our Nationality




The Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans




Bracero Program Agreement




Hernandez v. Texas




Plyler v. Doe




Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986




Letter of Protest Regarding the Treatment of Undocumented Immigrants




DREAM Act of 2010—Bill Summary




Executive Actions on Immigration, 2014




Asians, Asian Americans, and Citizenship




A Chinese American Protest




People v. Hall




Chinese Exclusion Act




Alien Contract Labor Act




United States v. Wong Kim Ark




Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to V.H. Metcalf




Ozawa v. United States




United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind




Excerpts of the Munson Report




Executive Order 9066—Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians




Korematsu v. United States




Women and Citizenship




Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments




Lecture on Constitutional Equality




Susan B. Anthony: “Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?”




“Women’s Suffrage in a Democratic Republic”




Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution




Twentieth-Century Formulations




Woodrow Wilson’s Third Annual Message to Congress




Immigration Act of 1917




The National Origins Act (Immigration Act of 1924)




Smith Act (also known as the Alien Registration Act of 1940)




Presidential Proclamation 2526: Alien Enemies—Germans




Presidential Proclamation 2527: Alien Enemies—Italians




Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights




McCarran-Walter Act




Presidential Veto of the McCarran-Walter Bill




Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965




Twenty-Sixth Amendment




Controversies in Recent Years




Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting




Real ID Act




Civics Test for Naturalization




Statements by Barack Obama and a Spokesperson for Donald Trump Regarding the “Birtherism” Controversy




Arizona v. the United States




Executive Order regarding U.S.-Mexico Border Child Separations




Department of Commerce v. New York




Biden Memorandum on DACA




Biden Proclamation regarding Trump’s Border Wall




Biden Executive Orders on Immigration Enforcement




Special Topics in Citizenship




U.S. Code—Revocation of Naturalization




Trop v. Dulles




Afroyim v. Rusk




Foley v. Connelie




U.S. Code—Admission of Nonimmigrants




Amendment Regarding Naturalization for Permanent Residents Serving in the Military




Honorary Citizenship




Advice About Possible Loss of U.S. Citizenship




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography