875, section 3) disqualify from naturalization as citizens those Hindus, now barred by that act, who had lawfully entered the United States prior ... of the statute in 1790. But in this country ...
are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” The Naturalization Act of 1790 applied citizenship only to “free white persons,” and the Supreme Court’s reviled ...
In 1790, lawmakers created the Naturalization Act that allowed people to become citizens if they lived in the United States for two years and were free, white, in good moral standing and, for the ...
Till the early 1900s, only people who were "free and white" were eligible for US citizenship under the Naturalization Act of 1790, however, Bhicaji Balsara, an Indian-Parsi textile merchant ...
The Naturalization Act ... and the Alien Enemies Act, which allowed the deportation of any alien who hailed from a country at war with the United States. The Sedition Act authorized the ...