Immigration controls Flashcards

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What was America know as before ww1?

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The “Melting pot” for races and nationalities

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In 1917 what did immigrants used to have to do?

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Take a literacy test and people favoured northern Europeans

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What were the emergency act in 1921?

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Based on nationality allowing 3% of the number from that country in the USA in 1910

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What was the Reed-Johnson Act?

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In 1924 max number of immigrants in one year was set to 154000 however Eastern European countries were only allowed to sed 20,000 non-europeans 4000

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