USA HISTORY

PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This ended the quota system and admitted immigrants based on facility ties and national needs.
A
The Immigrant Prevention Act of 1966
B
The Immigration Quota Act of 1965
C
The Immigration Violence Act of 1965
D
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The act also set a numerical limit on immigration (120, 000 per annum) from the Western Hemisphere for the first time in U.S. history.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 1965 Immigration Act is widely seen as a watershed in US immigration policy. It abolished the country-of-origin quotas, which had been in place since the early 1920s and which favoured immigrants from the UK, Germany, and Ireland, while severely limiting immigration from elsewhere in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 eliminated the national origins quota systems established by earlier legislation.

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