USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Immigration Restriction League was an American nativist and anti-immigration organization founded by Charles Warren, Robert DeCourcy Ward, and Prescott F. Hall in 1894.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Immigration Restriction League (IRL) was an organization created in 1894 by Harvard graduates Charles Warren, Robert DeCourcy Ward, and Prescott Farnsworth Hall (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program, n.d.).

Detailed explanation-3: -Hall, established the Immigration Restriction League to press for laws to check the burgeoning influxes which now originated in greater proportion from eastern and southern Europe.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1895 a group of elite women and men in Boston founded the Immigration Restriction League with the goal of preserving the historic ethnic make-up of America-as defined by this group. They pushed for a literacy test, which passed in Congress in 1896, although President Grover Cleveland vetoed the measure.

Detailed explanation-5: -Leading the charge was the Immigration Restriction League, a Boston group that drove a nationwide campaign for requiring literacy tests for new arrivals.