Naturalization Act of 1790 - Afterwards

Afterwards

The Act of 1790 was superseded by the Naturalization Act of 1795, which extended the residence requirement to five years.

Major changes to the definition of citizenship were ratified in the nineteenth century following the American Civil War. The Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 granted citizenship to people born within the United States regardless of their parents' race, citizenship, or place of birth, but it excluded untaxed Indians (those living on reservations). The Naturalization Act of 1870 extended "the naturalization laws" to "aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent." The 1898 Supreme Court court decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark grants citizenship to an American-born child of Chinese parents.

The remainder of Native Americans were finally granted citizenship in 1924, whether or not they belonged to a federally recognized tribe; by that date two-thirds of Native Americans were already US citizens. The 1952 naturalization act prohibits racial and gender discrimination in naturalization.

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