Trace the ways in which race/racism has informed the legal and social practices of politicians and reformers, beginning in the late 19th century to the end WWII, by considering the questions below:

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Student 's Name Student 's Name Professor Subject DD /MM /YY Immigration Issues during the Great Depression Era The timeline covered by the Great Depression showed many instances of immigration-related issues , such as the effect of the Naturalization Act of 1790 , the treatment to European and to Asian immigrants , clashes between Black workers and immigrant workers , political and nativist responses to race and immigration during and after of World War I and through the 1920 , racial issues exposed by the Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal , the federal government 's way of dealing with immigrants during the Great Depression and racial politics during World War II . This will try to look into and explain the most important events during this era in relation to immigration in the United States . Blumentahal (1971 ) and Grebler (1966 ) said that the acquisition of citizenship constitutes the most important procedures of political integration into the recipient society (qtd . in Fernandez 1986 . Through the Naturalization Act of 1790 , a person can be granted citizenship in a country where he was not born in (Fox 2007 . Answers .com 2007 . When the Constitution was approved , the United States Congress enacted the Naturalization Act of 1790 . The 1790 Naturalization Act enables a person to become a citizen of United States after two years of residence in the country . However , the act was provided for any alien , being a free white person ' of good character (Answers .com 2007 . This means that those people of color who where born outside the United States would be prevented from being citizens of the country . This was one of the ambiguities of the act . This was in contradiction to the Congress ' view that America is a school for equality and democracy . Moreover , the Congress required that foreigners must spend enough time in the United States to be able to appreciate democracy . Aside from this , Americans feared that through the Naturalization Act , violent French revolutionaries would come to the United States and be citizens . To resolve this , the Congress did the first step by extending the residence requirement to five years . However , this step reflected nativism . Nativism is a policy which supports the native-born citizens over the immigrants . Both the Federalists and Republicans were affected by this nativist rejection of foreigners . Nativism is responsible for exclusions of people based on country of origin , race and political ideology (Answers .com 2007 . Another requirement , aside from the length of residence , is language . This worked to keep some foreigners from becoming citizens . Immigrants...