THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Immigrants from Canada and England were targeted
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Immigrants from Chile, Peru, and Brazil were targeted
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Russian immigrants were targeted (and only Russian immigrants)
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Immigrants from Asia and Southern and Eastern Europe were targeted by the Immigration Quota Acts.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census.
Detailed explanation-2: -Summary. .” Eastern and southern Europeans were most severely affected by reductions in legal immigration. The “national origins” quota system to limit immigration selectively was quantitatively discriminatory and would remain the primary principle determining admissibility to the United States until 1965.
Detailed explanation-3: -On this date, the House passed the 1924 Immigration Act-a measure which was a legislative expression of the xenophobia, particularly towards eastern and southern European immigrants, that swept America in the decade of the 1920s.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1920s, Congress passed a series of immigration quotas. The quotas were applied on a country-by-country basis and therefore restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe more than immigration from Northern and Western Europe.