History of the United States I / Unit 8 USH1 1067 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The 1790 Naturalization Act
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The idea
The Naturalization Act of seventeen ninety required an immigrant be a free White person of good character.
In practice
A statute excluding enslaved, free Black, Native and Asian people from citizenship.
Where people slip
The anchor says it established the United States as a republic of White men. Read it beside Unit 06's closing claim.
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