THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S
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Isolationism
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National Origins Act
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Immigration Act of 1965
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Dawes Plan
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Detailed explanation-1: -A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, after its congressional sponsors, the National Origins Act replaced a hastily passed emer-gency immigration bill in 1921 that served as a stop-gap measure to an anticipated massive immigration from Europe following World War I.