Immigration in the 1920s

Question 1

How many people emigrated to America between 1900 and 1920?

Answer 1

More than 14 million immigrants

Question 2

Who was the xenophobic influential sociologist that suggested that immigrants should be sterilised to prevent them from having children? Some states carried this out (such as virginia in 1924), through the compulsory sterilization legislation.

Answer 2

Henry Laughlin

Question 3

What laws were made about immigration in 1920s America?

Answer 3

❖The Emergency Quota Act of 1921.

❖The National Origins Act of 1924.

Question 4

The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 limited the total number of immigrants to _________ every year.

Answer 4

357,000

Question 5

The National Origins Act of 1924 reduced the total number of immigrants allowed from _________ to _________.

Answer 5

-357,000 to 164,000

Question 6

Due to immigration laws how much had reduced immigration annually?

Answer 6

Immigration fell from 1.4 million in 1914 to below 300,000 in 1929.

Question 7

Due to the immigration laws America was no longer considered what?

Answer 7

America stopped being an ‘open-door country’