Immigration

Question 1

What did the 1917 Immigration Act require immigrants to prove?

Answer 1

It required immigrants to prove that they could read English

Question 2

In what year was the Immigration Act?

Answer 2

1917

Question 3

What country did the 1917 immigration act ban immigration from?

Answer 3

Asia

Question 4

How much did the 1917 immigration act charge?

Answer 4

The act charged an immigration fee of $8.00

Question 5

In what year was the emergency quota act introduced?

Answer 5

1921

Question 6

What number did the 1921 emergency quota act set as the limit for the amount of immigrants per year?

Answer 6

the maximum number of immigrants in any year was set at 375,000

Question 7

In what year was the Johnson Reed Act?

Answer 7

1924

Question 8

what did the Johnson reed act state the maximum number of immigrants in any year was?

Answer 8

154,000 immigrants

Question 9

which group of people did the Johnson Reed act affect?

Answer 9

• eastern Europeans

- non Europeans

Question 10

which group of people did the 1921 emergency quota effect?

Answer 10

Eastern Europeans

Question 11

which group of people did the 1917 immigration act affect?

Answer 11

• Asians

- Non English

Question 12

What did the federal bureau of naturalisation and the federal bureau of education do?

Answer 12

organised course on politics and democracy to prepare immigrants for the citizenship exam

Question 13

what else did the FBN do?

Answer 13

also organised naturalisation proceedings and patriotic ‘Americanisation day’ rallies and 4th July celebrations