October 8, 2006

  • The Great Depression negatively affected the way that Filipinos were accepted in America. A famous photo shows a sign that read "POSITIVELY NO FILIPINOS ALLOWED" on a door to a business in Stockton, California. By 1934, the talk of limiting Filipino immigration to America came to fruition through the Tydings-McDufffie Act of 1934. This limited the number of immigrants from the Philippines to 50 per year and declared that the Philippines would no longer be a colony of the United States after a period of ten years, during which time a government and infrastructure modeled after the United States would be put in place.