Immigration legislation

Question 1

Immigration Act

Answer 1

1917
-Banned undesirables (Insane people, homosexuals and criminals)

-Imposed literacy tests for over 16s

Question 2

Emergency Quota Act

Answer 2

1921- Restricted number of immigrants admitted to 3% of the 1910 cencus

Question 3

Johnson Reed Act

Answer 3

1924 -Reduced immigrants to 2% of the 1890 census

-Immigration quota of 150,000

Question 4

National Origins Formula

Answer 4

1929- Confirmed 150,000 limit

-Banned Asian immigration altogether

Question 5

Alien Registration Act

Answer 5

1940

• Required non-citizens to register with federal government as a war-time measure
• Turned into ‘green card’ system
• Green cards only going to ‘legal’ immigrants

Question 6

Displaced Persons Act (2)

Answer 6

1948, extended 1950

• Allowed for the immigration of 415,000 people displaced by the war over 4 years
• BUT still within quota limit

Question 7

Immigration and nationality Act (McCarren Walter Act) (4)

Answer 7

1952
retained annual limit of 150,000 and the quota system
-Quota limit did not apply to the Western Hemisphere
- 85% of immigrants came from the North/ Western Europe
-Allowed the immigration of 100,000 Asian immigrants

Question 8

Refugee Relief Act

Answer 8

1953
-Allowed 214,000 European refugees

-OUTSIDE of quota limit

Question 9

Operation Wetback

Answer 9

1954

-Mass deportation of illegal, mostly Mexican immigrants

Question 10

Refugee Escapee Act

Answer 10

1957

-Extended refugee legislation to cover people escaping from communist countries

Question 11

When was the Chinese exclusion Act repealed

Answer 11

1943