USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act ( Pub. L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -Authored by Representative Albert Johnson of Washington (Chairman of the House Immigration Committee), the bill passed with broad support from western and southern Representatives, by a vote of 323 to 71.

Detailed explanation-3: -In response to increasing immigration from southern and eastern Europe, old-stock Americans contributed to a nativist sentiment across the country. Such anti-immigrant feelings culminated in the National Origins Act of 1924, which sharply reduced the number of southern and eastern Europeans entering the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -A 1921 law imposed the first overall numerical quota on immigration to the U.S.-about 350, 000, reduced to 165, 000 in 1924 (Martin, 2011). The 1924 law set annual quotas for each European country based on the foreign-born population from that nation living in the U.S. in 1890.

Detailed explanation-5: -To further limit immigration, this law established extended “national origins” quotas, a highly restrictive and quantitatively discriminatory system. The quota system would remain the primary means of determining immigrants’ admissibility to the United States until 1965.