Restrictions On Immigration

Question 1

When was the literacy test act?

Answer 1

1917 (40 word document)

Question 2

Which act reduced immigration to 350,000 and specifically aimed to decrease the number of immigrants from southern and Eastern Europe
*bonus:who signed it?

Answer 2

1921 emergency immigration act

*warren Harding

Question 3

When the the Johnson reed immigration act passed?

Answer 3

1924 :reduced immigration to 150,000 further excluded Japanese

Question 4

Who did the 1924 Johnson reed act allow in the USA? And what did a congressman say about them?

Answer 4

Allowed a considerable number of northern and Western Europeans
Albert Johnson-“descended from generations of free men bred to a knowledge of the principles and practises of self government”
Whereas the other “threatened our cherished institutions”

Question 5

What did Calvin Coolidge say about immigrants?

Answer 5

The “mix and blend” cannot be beneficial

“America must be kept American”

Question 6

Was it all restricted?

Answer 6

-No immigration from the West remains unlimited as they wanted cheap Mexican labour.
-Because of the poverty and illiteracy Mexican labourer came with Anglos were able to treat them as inferior and reproduce the superior stock
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