USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This provided a new quota system that allowed more people from outside of Europe to settle in the United States
A
Appalachian Regional Development Act
B
Department of Housing and Urban Development Act
C
Immigration Act
D
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Quota System U.S. law limits the number of prospective immigrants who may be admitted annually. The Immigration Act of 1990 establishes an annual limit of 700, 000 visas for quota-restricted immigrants.

Detailed explanation-2: -An Act to limit the immigration of migrants into the United States. The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that country living in the United States as of the 1910 Census.

Detailed explanation-3: -Congress enacts the Immigration Act of 1882 (22 Stat. 214), constituting one the first attempts at broad federal oversight of immigration. The law levies a tax of 50 cents for each passenger arriving by ship from a foreign port who is not a US citizen, to be paid by the ship’s owner.

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