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The Alamo - On the 6h of March 1836, General Santa Anna and his army attacked the rebels

against Mexico control over Texas at the Alamo. They killed the defenders, two famous

historical figures James Bowie, Davy Crockett (who may have a slightly less important impact

on history as described) and the commander. Colonel William B. Travis. Today Texas school

children know these men as heroes of the independence. Often over looked are the other martyrs

at the Alamo were Mexicans/Tejanos like ... that actively supported Texas. In the aftermath

most, if not all of the Mexican involvement was annihilated from history until recently. Another 

result was strong anti-Mexican sentiment in Texas and through the south Making Mexican

immigration difficult.

gentleman's agreement of 1907(or 1908 depending on source) which was a pledge between

 japan and the US to control influx of Japanese to America. The Agreement was that US would

not impose any restrictions, and the Japanese would limit how many people could try toimmigrate or leave. The issue was two fold. There was growing Anti Japanese sentiment, as

well as concerns in some areas of having to large a population of Japanese workers which create

a concern for strikes as they shared the same nationality.

Executive order 9066-febuary 19th 1942 this order was issued by President Franklin D

Roosevelt. The act targeted Japanese American for persecution and removed their right of due

 process and equal protection of the law. Even having U.S. citizen ship did not protect the rights

and liberties that the constitution guaranteed. Two thirds of those interned where American

citizens by birth. This order was brought to the president buy General Dewitt say that the

Japanese Americas were all potential enemies as they were Japanese and enemy race were at war 

with.

Trans-continental Railroad -was built between 1863 and 1869 to join the eastern and western

halves of the United States. The coming of the railroad resulted in the end of most of the far 

slower and more hazardous stagecoach lines and wagon trains, and it led to a great decline of 

traffic on the Oregon and California Trail, which had helped populate much of the West

The Immigration Act of 1924, also called the or Johnson–Reed Act, including the National

Origins Act, Asian Exclusion Act (43 Statutes-at-Large 153), was a United States federal law 

that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the

number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down

from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 

1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. The law was aimed at further restricting the

Southern and Eastern Europeans who were immigrating in large numbers starting in the 1890s,

as well as prohibiting the immigration of East Asians and Asian Indians.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur  on

May 8, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those

revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to

implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. This

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law was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943.

Espionage and Sedition Acts (WW1) supported President Woodrow Wilson and Attorney

General Thomas Watt Gregory

Ellis Island in the New York Harbor was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the UnitedStates as the site of the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954. Before

that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. 

Though It did not handle as much of the Asia immigration as the Iland of Owahu in Hawaii