Us Immigration and Migration Reference Library: Primary Sources: U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library

Insights into the movement of people are provided in the "Primary Sources" volume via excerpts from such key documents as the Maryland Toleration Act (1649), the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784), the Homestead Act (1862), the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), and the Immigration Act (1924), as well as personal observations from two Mexican immigrants and concerns about the rise in U.S. immigration from conservative talk-show host Patrick J. Buchanan.